AI Tools in Coding: Progress or Just Optimization of the Status Quo? Pondered the future of coding with a colleague of mine recently, as one does. Couldn't help feeling a tad underwhelmed by the programming tools like GitHub's Copilot X and ChatGPT. Sure, these AI-powered coding buddies are smart, helpful and do save time, but they more or less tinker around the edges - optimize the existing processes but don't fundamentally alter them. Software development still remains a tedious enterprise - a loop of problem-definition, code-generation, code-validation, and feedback. Not so different from what it was 30 years ago really. We're surrounded by subpar software everywhere - the bugs, the slowness, the... 25 March 2023