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AI Stole the Joy of Programming


Ai is bad

I'd say I used copilot because I hate writing tests and fixtures and it's so good at stubbing dummy data that almost looks right, right? Things like setting up the application, wiring the environment variables, writing abstraction to make API calls, writing ETLs that just receive a model and modify it slightly to send similar model somewhere else. I got zero enjoyment of fixing the issue and I let AI do the most interesting part of the task while I was left to clean up the mess and adjust everything else to work properly considering new solution

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