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[โ€“] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a professional, my reasoning for NOT using AI is as follows:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. I'm a privacy nut, too. Most "good" AI solutions are anti privacy.
  4. 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.

[โ€“] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

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.