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The AI Pair Programmer: Why the Human Loop Is About Partnership, Not Review
What Extreme Programming taught us about collaboration — and why it maps perfectly onto working with LLMs The current conversation is missing something If you spend any time in developer circles right now, the conversation about AI coding tools tends to collapse into one of two camps. The first camp believes we are months away from AI replacing software developers entirely — that the role of the human is already vestigial, a temporary inconvenience on the road to full automation. The second camp pushes back hard, arguing that AI is little more than a sophisticated autocomplete — useful for boilerplate, dangerous if trusted, and nowhere near capable of producing anything a senior engineer couldn’t do faster with a clear head and a good keyboard shortcut. ...