Regardless of the impact on productivity and, more broadly, the job market, I think AI-assisted programming makes the work less enjoyable, at least for me. I actually like programming. I enjoy building things from the ground up. I don’t want to feed an AI a list of requirements just to review whatever code it spits out. I dread that vision and hope it will never come.

This parallels nicely with the journey/destination ethos. If you make the latter the only thing that matters, and getting to it as quickly as possible, then you miss the entire point of the dance.

Although I am still scared of the future, I agree with the author. We still have to wait for some time before we have an idea of how it will really affect software development in general.