AI is welcome as a better search engine and a pair programmer that does not drive, but writing the code itself is not something to hand over to it.

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• Cannot both be true

  LLMs can write a large fraction of the tedious code a developer will ever need to write, and most code on most projects is tedious.

  Ptacek says LLMs can write a large fraction of the tedious code a developer will ever write, and that most code on most projects is tedious. Hansson’s position — since abandoned — was that a model is welcome as a search engine and a pair programmer that does not drive, and that writing the code is not something to hand over. The claims are incompatible whoever currently holds them.

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• Code quality still matters even as LLMs make writing code much faster DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson13 May 2025
• What a programmer actually wants from AI is not autocomplete but a pair programmer that tells you which line has the bug. GHGeorge Hotz29 Jun 2023
• Nobody in the coding-agent market is using AI so much better than everyone else that their competitors cannot keep up — the gap you would expect to see simply is not there. DRDax Raad27 May 2026
• The real value of AI coding agents is in the code a developer would never have written themselves, not just what they generate for you. AKArvid Kahl13 Feb 2026
• The meme that programmers no longer need to be competent is a trap: the path is competence, and AI does not change that. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson18 Sept 2024

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