But this is using a machine to do the lifting for you so you don't develop the muscles. You are actually not strong through technology but left weak and helpless when left on your own.
It is just a bunch of people that don't take pride in self-sufficiency. It is a muscle that has atrophied for them.
I do not (confidently) know how to make fire from "scratch". I do not know how to butcher or skin an animal. I do not know how to spin cloth, nor how to stitch it into clothing. My "finding the perfect kind of stone for knapping into a handaxe" muscles have fully atrophied.
We live in a society. That means giving up self-sufficiency in exchange for bigger leverage in our chosen specialisation. I am 110% confident that when electric power became widespread, people were making the exact same argument against using it as you are making now.
"I'm a chef, I hate cooking, I buy readymade meals in the supermarket."
You're right about the pride of writing actually good code. I think a lot about why I'm still writing software, and while I don't have an answer, it feels like the root cause is that LLMs deprive us of thoughts and decisions, our humanity actually.
I have never felt threatened by an LSP or a text editor. But LLMs remove every joy, and their output is bad or may not what you wanted. If I hated programming, I would actually buy software as I don't have such precise needs to require tools perfect for those needs.
No need to enjoy a good meal, AI will chew food for you and inject it in your bloodstream. No need to look at nature, AI will take pictures and write a PDF report.
Tools help because they are useful. AI is in a weird position to replace every job, activity, and feeling. I don't know who enjoys that but it's very strange. Do they think living in a lounge chair like Wall-E spaceship is good?
As for the article, it's yet another developer not using its tools properly. The free JetBrains code completion is bad, and using f-strings in logs is bad. I would reject that in a merge request, sorry. But thinking too much about it makes me sad about the state of software development, and sad about the pride and motivation of some (if not most) developers nowadays.
It is just a bunch of people that don't take pride in self-sufficiency. It is a muscle that has atrophied for them.