Comment by mavilia

No longer employed but from my past year's experience I became disillusioned with it. I think it maybe made me 20% faster? That's being generous but it could have been higher if I was really really diligent about when to use it. But like most dopamine rewarding technologies it became really easy to either just get lost in it or go through periods of not caring to use it at all because it kept giving back garbage.

Things change fast and the tech got way better as I moved from CoPilot to Cursor to finally Claude Code. But at the end of the day the amount that I understood the code I was producing versus how much I was writing was not worth it.

People talk a lot about "what you merge to production is still your code" and I agree with that. To that point whether its a shared experience or just how I'm wired I would need to put way more time in to trying to deeply understand the code than the time it took to write a great prompt that Claude could follow correctly.

We already had a script for boilerplate writing and honestly boilerplate is kinda fun to write sometimes if you have a nice keyboard. The annoying boilerplate is the more nitty gritty stuff like error handling in Go. So I guess I still support the AI tab, that's pretty nice.

I felt myself becoming "dumber" and my productivity increase wasn't worth it. Same reason I stay off TikTok and Instagram even though they sometimes have interesting reels that are actually informative.