A korrentour reading

Effective use of AI coding tools requires domain expertise: the tool should be used as an assistant, not as a replacement for the engineer.

What is a korrent?

A korrent — “current”, with a K — is our reading of what someone said: one sentence, drawn from their own words below. People put the same thought in different words; a korrent tries to name the thought they share, so that what several people mean can be set side by side, and followed as it changes.

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What Mitchell Hashimoto actually said

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Mitchell Hashimoto 11 Oct 2025

This is intentional and I believe good AI drivers are experts in their domains and utilize AI as an assistant, not a replacement.

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Where this collides

In tension with

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’s fraction is large enough to reshape the job. Hashimoto’s condition is that the human already holds the domain expertise the tool is assisting. Both can be true of different developers, and which one is typical is the disagreement.

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