What are you solving?
The recent explosion of GenAI got me thinking about the older code generation tools I’ve worked with. The appeal is the same as it’s always been: get more done, reduce the toil. That’s all goodness, but it can be used to “solve” the wrong problems too. Problems you could remove and not need to fix. We have had code generation for decades; it’s a side effect of being able to generate output programmatically. Sometimes it’s useful, but sometimes it just masks problems. ...