Its similar for us to a certain extent. I honestly don‘t know yet where this will lead to.
Personally I also don‘t really follow the arguments that the agent does the coding and the human does the understanding.
In my opinion one is thinking differently about the code when not coding it by himself, on a higher level or lets even say a more superficial one.
To keep the understanding on the same level you would have to limit the agent to just „typing“ but this is definitely not whats happening.
Yes, may be a skill issue[tm], may be an inherent one or it may not even be relevant anymore, we will see.
For me it currently still works well because I am working on legacy systems I more or less have a good understanding about - so I can judge the agent code.
Not sure how this will be with new, green field code.
Not even starting with the discussion how it should be possible to review the sheer amounts of generated code.
Thats correct - and I notice that on myself. There are just much more things reachable at any point in time compared to our youth it takes real effort to focus.
I think its partially as you say: "everything I may need either already exists".
Through the connection over the internet (as great as it is) you see things already done already and often better than I would be able to do it myself with the limited time I got.
Also generally the large amount of things going on, its just a lot one could try, much more than in former times. So for people with focus problems its also a question of, yeah: focus.
For me I still code enough for work (as long as they let me do it - looking at the AI push) so I am fine but I still think back to the old times (C64, Amiga, 90s PC, rise of Linux on the Desktop) where I had more fun.
So I guess its the technology getting more mature and personally its also getting older and maybe burned out a bit.
I actually never understood this, the C128 was a strange device (as you say like the IIGS).
Was it really because Albert Charpentier left and then nobody was able to do a VicIII until much later (C65)?
Important fun fact, this synthesizer was an Ensoniq chip (ES5503 DOC), designed by Bob Yannes, the inventor of the SID chip.
The IIGS was actually a cool machine, not very successful unfortunately.
In general you are right, I expect something like this to appear in the future and it would be cool.
But isn't the criticism rather that there are too many (as you say repetitive, not relevant) events - its not like there are cool stories emerging from the underlying game mechanics anymore ("grand strategy") but players have to click through these boring predetermined events again and again.
Yes, may be a skill issue[tm], may be an inherent one or it may not even be relevant anymore, we will see.
For me it currently still works well because I am working on legacy systems I more or less have a good understanding about - so I can judge the agent code. Not sure how this will be with new, green field code.
Not even starting with the discussion how it should be possible to review the sheer amounts of generated code.