Laravel Nova co-creator David Hemphill, who says he's written almost entirely AI-generated code for two years, on why hand-written code is becoming a niche selling point rather than the norm.
…things. So I'm a few years up. I'm always a few years ahead of probably where, you know, the central point or the like the I don't want to say average developer, but I don't, the, the less AI pill developers or whatever. So there's a time, but it feels like for me, this is an inevitability that
this is where the industry is moving.
Apart from like boutique shops where that might be the marketing stance is that we only write code by hand. It's made by humans, you know, 100% vegan, you know, gluten-free code. You know what I mean? There'll be that and there'll be markets for that. But for the most part, it's going to be mass-produced code. And that's kind of what we're seeing, like a little bit of an industrial revolution as far as code writing is, and I just, that's going to be the case. And especially maybe at these bigger companies, you're, there's the stats when they're running the reports, who's doing the most PRs, who's making the most impacts. It's going to be the AI people because they can, all their time is not spent writing the code. It's, it's their shipping things. They're interacting with teams, putting the ideas together, making sure it is testable, verifiable, secure. Not necessarily that they're just writing every bit of it.
Yeah. It's interesting. I'm thinking about that. I've never worked at a place where anybody counts commits lines of code or PRs. We've had clients who do it, and I've every single told them, time told them, that's really unhealthy. And honestly, it's been our unhealthiest clients who have counted…
You know, that's just another of the chasing focus and things.
Where's the dopamine from building in a mechanical keyboard? That's what I need to know. I mean, is it just being done in a cookie? There's something