As to not be fired. I’ve been forced to use AI at work, I’m “slower” than the rest of my coworkers even with AI, but I also don’t spend half my week fixing bugs for code that I didn’t read from the week before.
I’ll usually pick a project and tell the robot to figure it out, give it all the context it needs so it’s not asking every 5 minutes for access to my whole disk, and let it run. While it’s doing that I’ll hand code and actually do the work. I’m convinced it’s the fact that I still code that I’m able to read and understand what slop need to be ripped out of the robots output.
I might do 2-3 tickets a day while others are doing 5-6, but I also didn’t introduce a bug that cost our clients $1,000/day for 2 weeks straight and then didn’t know how to fix it so it continued costing them that for 3 extra days while struggling to read code that I didn’t write.
tldr: code by hand while the robots running it’s task. Don’t lose the skill just because you’re not as fast.
As to not be fired. I’ve been forced to use AI at work, I’m “slower” than the rest of my coworkers even with AI, but I also don’t spend half my week fixing bugs for code that I didn’t read from the week before.
I’ll usually pick a project and tell the robot to figure it out, give it all the context it needs so it’s not asking every 5 minutes for access to my whole disk, and let it run. While it’s doing that I’ll hand code and actually do the work. I’m convinced it’s the fact that I still code that I’m able to read and understand what slop need to be ripped out of the robots output.
I might do 2-3 tickets a day while others are doing 5-6, but I also didn’t introduce a bug that cost our clients $1,000/day for 2 weeks straight and then didn’t know how to fix it so it continued costing them that for 3 extra days while struggling to read code that I didn’t write.
tldr: code by hand while the robots running it’s task. Don’t lose the skill just because you’re not as fast.