The day I started believing (opens in new tab)

I've used AI coding assistants since the first day they were genuinely worth using, and not as a curiosity or for the demo. I've used them daily, on real work, on systems other people depend on. For a long time I was fairly sure I knew exactly what they were. They were a very good autocomplete, a tireless junior who never quite reads the style guide, a way to skip the boring parts of the job. Useful, occasionally astonishing, but bounded. I had a tidy mental model of where the ceiling sat, a...