"I wanted a bicycle for the mind, we got DoorDash for Thinking"
round · x · 2026-09-10
Quoting @usgraphics, mycoliza laments that instead of a "bicycle for the mind," current AI coding tools amount to "DoorDash for Thinking" — cognition delivered while the human checks out. What she'd actually want is a dialogic program synthesis tool that keeps the engineer in the loop, actively making decisions, while still accelerating code generation. A sharp critique of how AI coding products are turning engineers into spectators.
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