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 2024similar wording
• If AI can make you irrelevant, what you were doing was work slightly too complicated to automate before, not programming. THThePrimeagen22 Mar 2025similar wording
• 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 2025similar wording
• Dismissing a subject as a waste of time because you never used its details on the job is the wrong way to think, and it is the same mistake people make about learning to code now that AI writes the loops. NENeetCode24 Jun 2026similar wording
• Because a few specialists already devote themselves to superintelligent AI, the rest of us have correspondingly less reason to spend our own effort on it. SAScott Aaronson7 Sept 2008similar wording

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