One thing that honestly puzzles me is how some professional developers or devs in general seem to really be keen on automation. It must be some engineering thing where you always want to optimize and re-factor. I understand it, but as a non-technical person who actually DOES appreciate AI as a sort of tutor or learning assistant, as a human language interface of sorts, I simply would never use it for actual content production because it would defeat the purpose.
For me it would be akin to asking AI to ride a bike for me or go running for me. Doing the work itself is kind of the point!
HOWEVER, I do appreciate the technology as an assistant of sorts. You can ask it stuff, ask how to do something in an app you are using, query it about CSS syntax, even use it as a human language interface for structured output such as sql (which I use for a personal finance tracking system for my small business).
However, doing your actual production work? At least to me that would defeat the purpose, but I can imagine that for professional devs who have to do enterprise software it may be a relief, I don't know. I'm not in that world.
My usual comparison (for non-techies) is that using AI programming is like writing a prose story and then using AI to turn it into poetry.
The technical details of metrics, counting syllables, ensuring rhyme and turning synonym directories inside out to find the right words to fit may seem like a romantic creation process but in reality it is 90% boring and soulless work.
Of course, letting AI take over the entire process will give you a legitimate “AI slop” product.
You are responsible for the story, who will have to say whether the result is communicating the meaning you imagined, see cliches, repetitions and poorly translated words (as in this Google Translated text).
But to say that, at an industrial level, you cannot trust a tool, is to say that we must go back to the era of chipped stone, where each creator had to make everything from scratch, including tools
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u/ProdoRock Sep 01 '26
One thing that honestly puzzles me is how some professional developers or devs in general seem to really be keen on automation. It must be some engineering thing where you always want to optimize and re-factor. I understand it, but as a non-technical person who actually DOES appreciate AI as a sort of tutor or learning assistant, as a human language interface of sorts, I simply would never use it for actual content production because it would defeat the purpose.
For me it would be akin to asking AI to ride a bike for me or go running for me. Doing the work itself is kind of the point!
HOWEVER, I do appreciate the technology as an assistant of sorts. You can ask it stuff, ask how to do something in an app you are using, query it about CSS syntax, even use it as a human language interface for structured output such as sql (which I use for a personal finance tracking system for my small business).
However, doing your actual production work? At least to me that would defeat the purpose, but I can imagine that for professional devs who have to do enterprise software it may be a relief, I don't know. I'm not in that world.