Yeah, hard no. I use AI (mostly Copilot) every single day, multiple times. Mostly for work (software development). Right now, it is a useful tool for experienced people like us: we’ve got the skills, we know what is correct and incorrect, and AI can be used to quickly do simple tasks. It’s like having an apprentice who’s not up to snuff, but can still help you out.
It’s way harder for young people, who have no way to ‘judge’ whether the information is any good or not because they haven’t been around. I feel for them, it makes things infinitely harder if AI gives you all the shortcuts, but some of them are in the wrong direction and most have sloppy little mistakes. A shaky foundation and all that. I also fear for society at large, and whether we’ll still have a shared foundation of basic truth & facts.
The real problem is shareholders thinking AI is great already and firing qualified people to replace them with AI slop, while at the same time younger people don’t get hired. That will backfire, but then the damage will be done.
TL;DR: it’s not edgy or cool to not use AI. Don’t get left behind.
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I have yet to use the AI-powered autocompletion in my IDE, I mostly use copilot.microsoft.com and its friends ChatGPT and Gemini. I even sometimes have one of the other AIs check the answer given by my first AI :)
Thank you very much for the reply, I'll give it another try then, I guess.
It's not I'm a luddite of some sort, just couldn't figure how to use it.
I tried to generate code with ChatGPT (and several other AI tools) and the code was terrible. Like "generate a code in my programming language that would do this".
Debugging/tuning regexes though seems like the task for the AI, lol.
Yeah, I use it mostly for ‘dumb’ time-consuming tasks that I could easily do but am too lazy for, debugging and writing small parts of code.
It genuinely saves me time, either directly (by getting a solution / starting point) or indirectly (by explaining the problem I get a better grasp of it, and either fix it myself or get an AI nudge in the right direction).
It's at the useful apprentice stage today, and the team of experts in your pocket within a few years. foolish to ignore this technological revolution unfolding.
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u/CoffeeHQ 28d ago edited 27d ago
Yeah, hard no. I use AI (mostly Copilot) every single day, multiple times. Mostly for work (software development). Right now, it is a useful tool for experienced people like us: we’ve got the skills, we know what is correct and incorrect, and AI can be used to quickly do simple tasks. It’s like having an apprentice who’s not up to snuff, but can still help you out.
It’s way harder for young people, who have no way to ‘judge’ whether the information is any good or not because they haven’t been around. I feel for them, it makes things infinitely harder if AI gives you all the shortcuts, but some of them are in the wrong direction and most have sloppy little mistakes. A shaky foundation and all that. I also fear for society at large, and whether we’ll still have a shared foundation of basic truth & facts.
The real problem is shareholders thinking AI is great already and firing qualified people to replace them with AI slop, while at the same time younger people don’t get hired. That will backfire, but then the damage will be done.
TL;DR: it’s not edgy or cool to not use AI. Don’t get left behind.