Why Some Developers Love AI Coding Tools — And Others Don’t
In the previous posts, I wrote about speaking at Global Azure ANZ 2026 and the strange speed at which universities seem to be reversing themselves on AI. But the conversation that lingered longest in my head afterwards was about coding itself. Or maybe not coding exactly. More about the feeling of coding. One developer told me they just were not enjoying the new AI coding tools very much. The outputs were fine. Useful even. But something felt missing. The satisfaction had thinned out somehow. ...