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

[NightHarbour15]

Awkward transitional phase, we're clearly still figuring out the right way to actually use these tools well

[DigitalNomad]

Holds up better than expected honestly, the core loop of describe intent then verify output feels genuinely lasting

[WearyScholar]

Foundational I'd guess, the actual underlying ideas feel more durable than the specific tools implementing them

[Brandon14]

Depends which specific tool you mean, some of today's approaches already feel more durable than others

[PaleDrifter]

Primitive almost certainly, every current workflow eventually looks clunky once the next paradigm actually arrives

[Brandon80]

Curious how this compares to how developers now look back at early autocomplete and linting tools