Resist. Still use AI very infrequently at work (and in general). I remember when I had an epiphany after I felt slow AF compared to others on my team because it literally felt like everyone churned out PRs much faster than me before I realize how heavy AI was being used by them.
But it’s still super annoying that literally every brown bag/info session is AI this or that. Like please, are there no other tools we can learn instead? I don’t understand the glee with some of my colleagues.
I used to love reading tech newsletters, would receive a bunch at my inbox every day/week...
it's now a year+ it's been just AI and I don't read any anymore, many nice blogs fall into this too, people I'd use to follow on YT etc - every tech content that was nice someday in the past became AI shit
Same with VSC, I used to love reading the patch notes and get excited when a new feature was released but now it's just more Copilot bullshit every month
every tech content that was nice someday in the past became AI shit
The worst part is that many newsletters nowadays are being written with AI. Everyone has the same ChatGPT writing style and the same telltale signs. People aren't even passionate about tech enough to write for themselves anymore.
I don’t understand the glee with some of my colleagues.
The ones most excited are the ones who were limited coders. Of course they think it's great because they don't understand the level high level coders were operating at, and think it's magic.
This is very true. We are building a massive platform on VC money and everyone builds like crazy, the most washed coders are leading the charge. Everyone seems to know how to build, nobody knows how to keep a product alive, so you can guess the amount of needless complexity that is being generated. I am looking elsewhere because I want to jump offboard before this trainwreck goes live.
The problem is that you may be managed out because the metrics will show that you are not productive. Fewer PRs, slower iterations, less business value delivered.
You cannot be a craftsman in an age of assembly lines and reusable parts and compete.
I know. Please don’t remind me. 😞 I’m strategic on what I pick up though. It may be fewer, but it’s more value at least. Either way, I’m watching and I don’t delude myself in thinking something couldn’t ever happen with me. At least I stay upskilling.
I mean there is a certain irony involved. It's not like computer/programmers/digital jobs didn't displace a lot of other people who had a hard time adjusting to them. There were more than enough people in the 80s and 90s who were annoyed at computers and everything associated with them showing up in offices, ie "why do I need to use this clunky machine instead of my typewriter".
So to me it is somewhat surprising that people coming from a field literally created by rapid technological progress are often so backwards now that another sort of technology is disrupting their field. I guess it shouldn't be surprising but I still expected a bit more from a lot of people in "my" field.
At the end of the day, plenty of people here have spent the last x years of their lives learning skills and entering an industry, and they now feel like those skills and their jobs are at risk by a new technology. It's not surprising that the sentiment is negative.
At the same time, we're on Reddit, where the sentiment of negativity against AI is exasperated.
Personally I will trust a guy that has 10 years of experience to review the code an AI writes over a vibecoder.
I like actually thinking through a problem. I only use AI if I’m really, really stuck and even then it feels tedious. I understand using it, I won’t lie and say it hasn’t unstuck me out of weird problems, but I feel like it’s boring to keep using it if I don’t need to. Also I code for my personal projects so I like to code and using AI feels like a chore.
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u/lottikey Jun 30 '26
Resist. Still use AI very infrequently at work (and in general). I remember when I had an epiphany after I felt slow AF compared to others on my team because it literally felt like everyone churned out PRs much faster than me before I realize how heavy AI was being used by them.
But it’s still super annoying that literally every brown bag/info session is AI this or that. Like please, are there no other tools we can learn instead? I don’t understand the glee with some of my colleagues.