These entries have all been tagged with “ai”.
Every day I’m seeing more and more postings about how AI is eating the world of programming and developers, and you really don’t need to know anything anymore. All you have to do is type and point and click.
Well, as a programmer, maybe you’re thinking I’m being defensive when I say that’s not entirely true. But the way we’re doing programming is changing, and it’s becoming more about wisdom and current knowledge. Which… still isn’t easy.
I just released an updated, brand new 1.0 release of my Typesetter library. It’s a library with some helpful wrappers for creating PDFs from markdown. It comes with a CLI and is a Laravel app.
I started to question the work, though. Was this still my hobby? A useful project? Did I understand what I was ‘writing’ anymore? Did I need to do this?
I’ve been a huge fan of automated software testing for years. I tend to reach for unit tests over end-to-end (e2e) tests. This is probably because of two reasons: a focus on back-end work (primarily) and e2e testing was slow compared to my targeted unit tests.
With automated AI tooling now, though, I think the tide is changing. I still value my unit tests, but e2e is becoming my champion.
I’ll explain how and why my mind changed: