What will developers a decade from now make of today's AI coding tools

[Daz]

Every generation of developer tooling looks a little embarrassing in hindsight, the IDEs, the frameworks, the workflows that felt cutting edge and later became punchlines in conference talks about how far things have come

AI coding assistants are clearly having their moment right now. Ten years out, once whatever comes next has fully arrived, how does this specific era get remembered, genuinely foundational groundwork, or an awkward transitional phase everyone's slightly embarrassed they lived through

Curious what people think, does today's workflow look primitive in hindsight, or does it hold up better than expected