Is agentic coding the future of software development?

Yes, but also very much no. Current AI is super advanced autocomplete. Autocomplete has its place – for example, boilerplate stuff that is easily predictable. NetBeans already autocompletes my constructor methods based on my code and the fact that most constructors have the same stuff in them.

I think that once the fuss has died down and the cost of running the things gets too real, we’ll be using AI for a better autocomplete and little else.

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  • AI?

    @xerqi

    AI seems like it is here to stay. No one is happy about this. It does not affect me, but my arty friends hate it.

    Once we all used horses, and that was the way things would always be until it wasn’t.

    Things change sometimes. Other times, things we thought were here to stay fade away instead.

    Shrug.

    #AI #change

  • @xerqi What do lawmakers need to know about AI? Is this a trend that needs protective legislation or a new discovery here to shake up how we do things?

  • @xerqi

    Do you think AI is the future?

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