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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?