AI Code Generators Rapidly Transforming Software Development Workflows

Summary

The New York Times reports on the rapid advancement of AI code generation tools, highlighting OpenAI's Codex and competing systems from Anthropic and Google. The article captures a significant shift in how experienced programmers interact with these tools — moving from using AI as an assistant to supervising AI as it performs the bulk of coding work. Programmer Mr. Metzger describes the transition: "I used to do the coding and they would help me do the work. Now, I supervise them as they do the