--- title: With the help of modern programming tools | daily.dev description: A short opinion piece pushes back on the tribalism around AI-assisted coding, arguing developers should judge code by its value rather than whether AI helped... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/with-the-help-of-modern-programming-tools-b3ifit6yh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: With the help of modern programming tools | daily.dev og:description: A short opinion piece pushes back on the tribalism around AI-assisted coding, arguing developers should judge code by its value rather than whether AI helped... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/with-the-help-of-modern-programming-tools-b3ifit6yh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/B3iFit6YH.png og:image:alt: With the help of modern programming tools og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # With the help of modern programming tools **[Sylvain Kerkour](https://daily.dev/sources/kerkour)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A short opinion piece pushes back on the tribalism around AI-assisted coding, arguing developers should judge code by its value rather than whether AI helped produce it. The author says they now avoid explicitly stating whether code was written with LLM help, using vague phrases like 'modern programming tools' instead, while noting their own blog and books remain AI-free. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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