That #Apple is making #AI an opt in choice continues to show me that out of the BigTech players they continue to be the most thoughtful of the bunch. Indeed they are also very imperfect around the web, right to repair, the App Store, and many other things, but they don’t default to user data abuse, pull products on a whim, change terms all the time, jump on every hype train, etc. it’s like their leaders actually think a little bit about consequences before doing things. 🤔
Artificial intelligence is also just like enlightened magic, which only does what we tell it to do and how we tell it to do it, not what we want to believe 😅
The majority of my time as a developer is spent on understanding problems and existing solutions, before deciding on a fitting course of action and implementing it, which is then fun to do.
All the ai code assist hype would be less insufferable if the promotors and managers eager to buy into it showed an inkling of understanding that it takes away little of the hard and tedious work, and mostly replaces the fun work with more hard and tedious work.