Comment by sahilagarwal

Same. AI is a good tool to use as a sounding board and conversation partner.

I only access claude and others using my browser - I give it a snippet of my code, tell it what exactly I want to do and what my general goal is, then ask it to give me approaches, and their pros and cons.

Even if someone wants to use AI to code for them, its still better to do the above as a first step imo. A sort of human in the loop system.

> It adds velocity but velocity early on always steals speed from the future. That's been the case for languages, for frameworks, for libraries, it's no different for AI.

Completely agree. I'm seeing this in my circle and workplace. My velocity might be a tad bit slower than the rest of my peers when you compare it per ticket. But my long tern output hasn't changed and interestingly, neither has anyone else's.

As an aside, I like your system of completely removing autocomplete unless you need it - may be something like that would finally get me to enable AI in my IDE.