AI Coding Assistants: Empowerment or Threat?
2025-08-31
The author explores the impact of AI coding assistants through personal experience. Initially feeling disheartened about AI replacing programmers, weeks of use revealed AI assistants not only boost coding efficiency but also offer new learning opportunities and creative workflows. However, this experience also brings contradictions: control over AI code, responsibility for bugs, and anxieties about programmers' self-worth. The author concludes AI assistants aren't simply threats or boons, but complex emotional experiences ultimately enhancing the joy of coding, like a human-speaking programming partner.
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