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As a professional, my reasoning for NOT using AI is as follows:
- I don’t want to lose the muscle memory of what I do. Sure AI might be able to do annoying things like test templates… But that’s not a skill I want to forget or lose, as self written unit tests have actually helped me catch mistakes that “would have worked” in prod (i.e. Code functions, but has undesired outcomes). AI can’t usually spot that.
- As a person who digs deep in cyber security and monitors heavily the malicious realm, I’m paranoid of malicious or weak code being spit into my repos.
- I’m a privacy nut, too. Most “good” AI solutions are anti privacy.
- If anyone here has done a proper code review of AI generated code from coworkers, they should know it adds a ton of extra time because of errors, inconsistencies with repo practices, etc and actually wastes the time of the developer and reviewers.
Am I saying “NEVER AI?”? nah. But it’s far from ready for me personally to even consider for programming purposes. I’m also well aware this isn’t what many others think or feel; I don’t scream at people for using it if it’s what they feel helps them.
I like to chat shit about AI coding assistants for the same reason I like to chat shit about anything that’s proffered as a game-changing revolution in how things are done – the effectiveness is always vastly overrated and the tooling and workflows take a long time to develop and tune. But I’m very happy for other people to improve the state of the art, and eventually I suppose my scepticism will mellow into a reluctant usage in certain contexts.
But mostly I just really enjoy doing what I do day-to-day and don’t particularly fancy making any radical changes to that at the moment.
What’s interesting is that people learning to code are more likely to say “I’m not using AI and I don’t plan to” then professionals.
Sounds counter intuitive to me because I expected professionals to be more conservative in that matter. They already have some habits developed, as opposed to new learners that in theory should benefit from AI because it makes doing simple things easier and can quite well explain basic concepts.
i reckon professionals are more likely to be pressured by their job to use AI, regardless of their own preference.
My job forces me to use AI and they track the usage to make sure we are using it.
My job has AI usage as an objective as well. It’s ridiculous. If a tool will make my job easier, then I’ll be the one to tell you, and I’ll be the first person advocating for it. The people in charge aren’t doing my job, so they can fuck off with the micromanagement.
That actually hasn’t been my experience of programmers’ behaviour. There are many developers who can’t be bothered to set up tools like IDEs, intellisense, debuggers, etc. which would definitely make them faster after the initial setup. I can easily believe it’s the same for AI.
That said, it does seem silly to require you to use it.
Why are you forced to use it? Seems rather aggressive enough to be peculiar.
Is there a profit motive that comes with your usage?
Is it easier to track your progress?
Are they training for your replacement?
Or are there reasons truly so dearly genuine?
Idk, it’s coming from the higher ups, they’re having everyone use AI as much as possible from writing emails, to programming, to even doing our performance reviews. They had a built in tool do do our performance reviews for us we just had to review edit and submit
Wow that’s kinda crazy. My work is the opposite - we’re banned from using AI. Why is nobody in the sensible middle?
Many professionals are trying to do a job and don’t much care about purity tests for being a “real developer”.
If a tool works I use it.
