I love the acceleration that AI agents offer for some tasks. It is a real joy to avoid doing boring stuff that would be otherwise hard to script and automate.
So that’s a win.
What I do not like, however, is framing it as a centrepiece.
Using AI to write requirements, implementing requirements, and reviewing and documenting the final piece of software – an Excel manager’s wet dream – kills the joy of programming and the exhilarating act of creation.
Same with art and writing. The joy and the process are the key to the act of creation. But here, there is another crux.
While I might be hard-pressed to spot AI code (except for all AI websites looking eerily the same), the AI-generated prose and art is painfully bland and uninteresting.
Even more so, any hint that the art or writing was created by AI makes my human brain automatically devalue it.
I don’t want to read or look at what a machine created. And I think I am not alone.
AI? Yes, please.
AI everywhere? No, please don’t.
