One thing that has irritated me for years is the claim AI will change everything — it’s just an article of faith, and I’m not inclined toward religion. Here is a rational argument about how AI will change programming, and it also level-sets by saying what that means: “If you’re making requests on a ChatGPT page and then pasting the resulting (broken) code into your editor, you’re not doing what the AI boosters are doing.” We all deserve better arguments for AI actually being useful, like the one Thomas Ptacek makes here.