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Ernest

This speaks so clearly to my current position at work. Especially the “upgrade framework / check for bugs” line.

I continue to avoid using AI tools because it generates a lot of junior level code i have to spend time cleaning up. Id rather write code myself because i enjoy that part of the job and i get to try out new things ive read about.

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Sylwia Laskowska

That’s actually very interesting about avoiding AI tools.

Most developers I know use them quite a lot now, but I also have a friend who very consistently refuses to use them, and honestly, it hasn’t hurt her career at all. She’s doing perfectly fine without them. 🙂

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Ernest • Edited

My experience so far with AI has been mostly negative. Whenever I ask it a question, it outright fabricates and answer leading me down a trail that doesn’t really exist.

The tools are supposedly getting better, but I would prefer not to use a technology that’s boiling the ocean for easy answers.

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Sylwia Laskowska

That “boiling the oceans for easy answers” part is actually a very fair point.