I can totally write the logging code myself, but its tedious formatting the log messages "nicely". In my experience AI will write a nice log message and capture relevant variables automatically, unlike handwritten statements where I inevitably have to make a second pass to include a critical value I missed.
I think we need to abandon this idea of writing code like a scribe copying a book. There’s a plethora of tools ready to help you take advantage of the facts
- that the code itself is an interlinked structure (LSPs and code navigation),
- that the syntax is simple and repetitive (snippets and generators),
- that you are using a very limited set of symbols (grep, find and replace, contextual docs, completion)
- and that files are a tools for organization (emacs and vim buffers, split layout in other editors)
Your editor should be a canvas for your thinking, not an assembly line workspace where you only type code out.
