i have no idea what this means.
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Simple, when learning Java for example there are many things you should do in best preactice but you will, as a learner, do it different. Also the most, not all AI helper are doing not everything like it should be. So you may consdider that you do stuffs in production which are not a good idea. But you will find out and correct them. In my oppinion it is never a good Idea this “learning on the Job” especially not with programming languages. Cause at least the basics of the language should be there otherwise it becomes a dangerous tour. Prople are doing this and often calling a concultant like my company after while reaching out to points it can’t be done in this wise anymore. Do what you want but be aware of stuffs which can become more complex and more buggy than they should become. Not more not less. When learning from the beginning in production it can’t be a good Idea at all. If you only need to learn a few parts while the fundamental knowledge is there it will be a better start at all.
why do you think projects get refactored? no matter what you do, no matter how experienced you are, and no matter how mature the technologies are, refactoring is a fact of every project, as it moves, as the organization moves, and as the devs move.
even our erp software, which is fifty years old, being maintained by greybeards who refuse to retire, gets wildly reworked. it looks nothing like it did, even a decade ago. first, before they knew any better, back when hierarchal databases were state-of-the-art, they used the search keys as primary keys. then they got normal-form religion, and switched to integers. then they got web religion, and switched to uuid’s. then they decided that tree rebalancing was too intense, so they switched to uuid-7’s.
then they all grew tired, asked themselves why they were making their lives so hard, and every query so complicated, and switched to hierarchial db’s, and search keys as primary keys. they wrote some triggers, and now they play battlefront II, all day.
using an llm to help you get moving doesn’t change the refactoring, even a little. if anything, it reduces the number of bad habits you pick up, at the beginning (“what IS boyce-codd normal form?”), because you are copying the work of others who came before and are way past beginner.
we are definitely seeing awful code from secretaries. which is great. they had an idea, they asked claude for help, and they have a prototype. their boss loves the idea, but none of the models can help them proceed. they reach out. the greybeards are in the middle of hacking the arms off of some poor droid, and force-pushing a star destroyer, so they ask the still-have-hairs to fix the project, so they go back to freebasing spice and mainlining blue milk.
the curve is different. that’s it. no code, low code, and llm’s are all just ways to steepen the torque curve on the front, and flatten it, after that.
Let me say: in medical development and aviation, our development areas it is not possible to act like that. So I guess it depends on the environment.
Says somebody which now got that ai freaks out from time to time. Yey
TBH these tech giants I put no faith in their predictions
When was Tesla going to have full self driving mode ?
Wasnt that supposed to be 8 years ago ?
And on Mars by next year ?
Over my many years I’ve come to learn you need to take what they say and push it out by a decade
Sometimes more
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I trust Sam Altman even less than I trust Elon Musk, if that’s possible.
(Wait a sec, that’s definitely not possible. I guess I’ll just say nobody should trust either of them, at all.)
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Hmm, yes, they are in their own class. But GP has a place directly after. But what ever, programming is a war against the tech giants and there is no difference between all of them. Saying that I realized that I trusted in Xojo for a long time. That was a big mistake. And I thought I will not do that again. Now the MAUI Story. What shall I say? The stupidity behind is that all of us are relying on tools. And people which have the power to change what they want will: change what they want. That’s the point why I love Java (cause it is open source and maintained by many) and Linux. Sadly Linux has the problem that there are many vendors which are not writing Software for it. I guess and hope that this will change one day. Until that day I will need to rely on macOS for development. 
Various Chinese cities have self-driving taxis so it exists even if Musky has failed to deliver.
Somebody asking AI to write Java code could be the trigger event that causes it to wipeout all humanity. Let’s not expose it to fugliness that could make it hate us 
I don’t know if it would not even be better if the mankind would be wiped away from earth …