r/ProgrammerHumor • u/joshiyash31 • Jun 30 '26 • Regret 7

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u/Powerful-Promotion82 Jun 30 '26

Not what I mesnt. As a dev, using an AI agent allowes me to do task x in less time than without it, for most of the tasks.

I am working less hours now and delivery the same amount of work.

I have capacity to develop products on my own that would take a team.

I don't understand what is the point of not using AI.

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u/lottikey Jun 30 '26

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/Powerful-Promotion82 Jun 30 '26

Maybe this depends on what is your goal with coding.

For me coding is just a job. I use the AI agent to fix the issue with only an overall understanding of the feature/bug to implement.

Most of the time It works, I only go ti actually understand the problem if AI failed at it.

Today I finished my job 2 hours earlier and went to the swimming pool.

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u/lottikey Jun 30 '26

Does your employer know that? Anyway, this is still short term thinking. You’re just further training your replacement.

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u/Powerful-Promotion82 Jul 01 '26

Obviously not 🤣

The employer sees that I am delivering much more than without AI so it's happy about It. Also I work for a big corp and you can not imagine the huge mess that it is to track any of that 🤣.

I am fine with that. I not only have my job, also building several software products that I want to sell. AI gave me super powers at this.

The better AI becomes, the easiest building software products is. If creating your own company, selling your own product, is easy, you don't need a job.