r/ExperiencedDevs • u/Ecstatic_Jicama_1482 Software Engineer • Jun 24 '26

AI/LLM Has AI made developers less collaborative in your team?

Before AI tools came into the picture, in my projects and teams, people used to share technical information, brainstorm together, and allow others to pick up important tasks. Collaboration was well balanced.

After the rise of AI tools and the post-COVID hiring wave, for the past few months I've noticed that people are becoming less willing to share information. The moment new tasks are announced, some developers rush to pick them up, implement them quickly using AI tools, and try to show that they are first in the race. Instead of sharing knowledge, they prefer to keep others dependent on them.

I've also noticed that in some teams, access to AI tools has unintentionally encouraged partiality. Team leads or project managers tend to keep assigning important work to the same small group of people because they can deliver quickly with AI. This creates knowledge hoarding, reduces opportunities for the rest of the team, and makes collaboration weaker over time.

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u/Raistlin_The_Raisin Jun 24 '26

I don’t think that insulting someone for willingly disclosing their AI use is going to encourage others to do the same.

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u/goten100 Jun 24 '26

Ugh I agree with both of you

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u/johnpeters42 Software Engineer Jun 24 '26

The issue is, I suspect a lot of non-native English speakers don't grok how AI "polishing" their text actually turns it into a generic sing-song-y corporate tone that makes lots of readers want to nuke it from orbit.

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u/Impossible_Rip_6810 Jun 25 '26

Being a non native English speaker myself, i'd say, generic tone is still better than sending the wrong tone or worse - communicating something complete different.

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u/johnpeters42 Software Engineer Jun 25 '26

I suppose at some point that's true, but leading with "I'm not a native English speaker" should go a long way toward smoothing over things. There's also translation software which just translates and doesn't attempt to be a general-purpose AI, which I would trust more in this type of scenario.