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Comment by kristofferR

6 days ago

The AI skeptics are the ones who never develop the skill though, it's self-destructive.

People treat this as some kind of all or nothing. I _do_ us LLM/AI all the time for development, but the agentic "fire and forget" model doesn't help much.

I will circle back every so often. It's not a horrible experience for greenfield work. A sort of "Start a boilerplate project that does X, but stop short of implementing A B or C". It's an assistant, then I take the work from there to make sure I know what's being built. Fine!

A combo of using web ui / cli for asking layout and doc questions + in-ide tab-complete is still better for me. The fabled 10x dev-as-ai-manager just doesn't work well yet. The responses to this complaint are usually to label one a heretic or Luddite and do the modern day workplace equivalent of "git gud", which helps absolutely nobody, and ignores that I am already quite competent at using AI for my own needs.

if one needs special "skill" to use AI "properly", is it truly AI?