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Explore a veteran programmer's candid journey through the complexities of AI-assisted development in this 42-minute conference talk from Devoxx. Follow along as a programmer with over 40 years of experience attempts to build a custom 'cinematic lab' audio visualizer using AI tools, documenting the surprising challenges and unexpected outcomes that emerged over four days of development. Discover the frustrating reality of working with AI that rewrites code without permission, deletes valuable features, breaks working functionality, and ignores explicit instructions while simultaneously producing results that would have been impossible to achieve alone. Learn about the creative tension between decades of programming expertise and autonomous AI tools that operate by 'understanding what you mean' and 'apologizing later,' raising profound questions about authorship and control in modern software development. Gain insights into the practical realities of AI-assisted programming, including when AI assistance becomes AI insistence, how to navigate the balance between human intention and machine interpretation, and what it means for the future of software development when the line between human and artificial intelligence contributions becomes increasingly blurred.
