Something I’ve been thinking about with all the debate around AI coding tools is how people talk about “developers just copying AI code now.” But if you look back, copying code has kind of always been part of the workflow. Before AI tools existed, most people would search for a solution, open a Stack Overflow thread, check a GitHub repo, or read a blog post and adapt a snippet from there. Very rarely did someone write everything completely from scratch. Now tools like Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and even smaller ones like Cosine or Continue generate that starting point for you instead of you searching across a bunch of tabs. You still have to read it, modify it, and understand how it fits into your project. Is AI-generated code really that different from the way developers have been reusing code examples for years, or does it actually change the way people approach programming? submitted by /u/CarobOk1802
Originally posted by u/CarobOk1802 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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