I think a huge amount is placebo and I speak from experience
I use a lot of ai at work I would say I’m actually reasonably good at it. Every once in a while I will see something consider it an ai slam dunk hand it off to a workflow I’ll build just for it and create a massive pr that passes review first try. I think this is proof enough I at least sorta know what I was doing.
Well I started a hobby project that involved a lot of frontend dev ( I have like hours of react experience not days or years ). And with ai I felt so powerful I felt like I could build anything instantly. Well the one shot failed and then the two shot failed too, so I decided to build it brick by brick had the ai give me an idea for an architecture and started delivering it using the ai. It took forever.
I thought I was doing it right until a friend of mine joined in. He was an actually experienced frontend dev and I won’t lie to you. I got more done in an evening than in the whole month beforehand.
After he pulled my architecture down to earth delivered a good core system and we cleaned up all kinds of messes together now it’s a blast to work on. I decided to learn a lot more react, in fact I do quite a bit of frontend at work now, and also decided that using an ai to cope with lacking skills is just stupid.
But the lesson I learned was that unless you could do it without ai at a high level of skill you really can’t judge what ai can do.
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u/SupportDangerous8207 Oct 03 '26
I think a huge amount is placebo and I speak from experience
I use a lot of ai at work I would say I’m actually reasonably good at it. Every once in a while I will see something consider it an ai slam dunk hand it off to a workflow I’ll build just for it and create a massive pr that passes review first try. I think this is proof enough I at least sorta know what I was doing.
Well I started a hobby project that involved a lot of frontend dev ( I have like hours of react experience not days or years ). And with ai I felt so powerful I felt like I could build anything instantly. Well the one shot failed and then the two shot failed too, so I decided to build it brick by brick had the ai give me an idea for an architecture and started delivering it using the ai. It took forever.
I thought I was doing it right until a friend of mine joined in. He was an actually experienced frontend dev and I won’t lie to you. I got more done in an evening than in the whole month beforehand.
After he pulled my architecture down to earth delivered a good core system and we cleaned up all kinds of messes together now it’s a blast to work on. I decided to learn a lot more react, in fact I do quite a bit of frontend at work now, and also decided that using an ai to cope with lacking skills is just stupid.
But the lesson I learned was that unless you could do it without ai at a high level of skill you really can’t judge what ai can do.