He says AI coding is like paying someone to exercise for you. The thread split on whether that's the point (adiamond.me)
A developer argues that handing implementation to an AI is like paying someone else to exercise for you: the output exists, but the muscle never forms. His real fear is the pipeline, where senior engineers who validate AI work get there only by once doing the grunt work themselves.
The pushback came from people with long resumes. One ex-Google engineer countered that the creativity was always in defining the feature, never in the typing, so the only thing AI killed was the part that was already mechanical.
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