Refusing to write code with AI can be a philosophical decision rather than a productivity one: the reason to program something is that you want to program it.

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• 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. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson18 Sept 2024
• 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
• If AI can make you irrelevant, what you were doing was work slightly too complicated to automate before, not programming. THThePrimeagen22 Mar 2025
• AI writes code well only where a million repositories have already written it; getting it to do something genuinely new remains notoriously hard. TSTim Sweeney30 Apr 2025
• When an AI writes bad code the thing to fix is the context it was given, not the code, because fixing the output adds no leverage. BTBret Taylor18 Aug 2025

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