Comment by vbezhenar
7 days ago
I enjoy programming and I enjoy being paid for programming. I'm being pressed to use AI for my paid work. And I don't enjoy AI-powered programming.
As of today, I've disabled Copilot. The only autocomplete that I can accept is absolutely mechanical one, not any kind of smart. I want to write the rest of the code myself. I like it.
I was weird in StackOverflow era, because I never blindly applied snippets, like other programmers do. I went over them token by token, reading underlying library sources and docs, always creating my own solution. It made me less productive, but I feel that my code was more robust and maintainable, so it was a good trade-off for me.
May be it'll work out the same way with AI, time will tell.
I think it will; AI is not going away, but once the hype has settled, the first companies have gone bankrupt or acquired, and employers are paying for them, they will become part of someone's daily tools not unlike the existing autocomplete tools.