AI Canโ€™t Code!

Originally published on LinkedIn

๐—”๐—œ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ปโ€™๐˜ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ! (๐—”๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ข๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—™๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ต ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€) ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿคฏ Thereโ€™s one common stream under almost every post about AI success.

Someone shares how AI accelerated delivery.

๐Ÿš€ Someone explains how they refactored safely.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Someone describes shipping faster with fewer repetitive tasks.

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And thenโ€ฆ

โ€œShow me the proof.โ€ โ€œShow me the code.โ€ โ€œAI canโ€™t code.โ€

Like clockwork. โฐ

Come on, guys.

Weโ€™re professional software engineers.

๐Ÿ’ป We write code for businesses.

๐Ÿข Those businesses own the code.

No one is publicly sharing their companyโ€™s production repos just to win an argument in the comments section. Thatโ€™s a nonsense request. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

And letโ€™s be honestโ€ฆ

Even if someone did share mountains of repos, commit histories, pull requests, benchmarks, metricsโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ“Š๐Ÿ“‚๐Ÿ“ˆ

It wouldnโ€™t matter.

The earth is flat.

๐ŸŒ AI canโ€™t code.

๐Ÿค– Case closed.

Thatโ€™s not scepticism. Thatโ€™s conclusion-first reasoning.

Healthy scepticism? Love it. โค๏ธ Blind denial? Different thing entirely.

Itโ€™s the same energy as:

โ€œItโ€™s just autocomplete.โ€ โ€œIt only works for toy problems.โ€ โ€œItโ€™ll never handle real systems.โ€

Meanwhileโ€ฆ teams are quietly shipping.

๐Ÿšข Refactoring.

๐Ÿ”ง Prototyping faster.

โš™๏ธ Delivering value.

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So instead of endlessly debating in comment threads, I thought Iโ€™d just have some fun with it. ๐Ÿ˜„

A little satire. A little humour. A little gentle poke.

Letโ€™s just hope no one falls off their flat earth anytime soon. ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

And yes โ€” I did create this article with AI, from my rants about your posts. ๐Ÿค–โœจ

And yes โ€” I love emojis and deliberately scattered them through. ๐Ÿ˜„๐ŸŽ‰

Iโ€™m sure that will really, really make you happy. ๐Ÿ˜