Cal Newport on AI Coding and Its Issues

On AI Coding and Its Discontents - Cal Newport “Writing your own code, slowly but surely, and using LLMs for narrow or particularly annoying tasks (say like writing tests or throw-away scripts), is the best way to produce the highest quality code, since it’s the only way to properly understand it.” […] This last year has been exhausting. The PR departments of the frontier labs have done an…