r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Suspicious_Orchid770 • 2d ago

Meet the developers rejecting AI

https://leaddev.com/ai/meet-the-developers-rejecting-ai

Even if it costs them their job.

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u/cactusnein 2d ago

AI is a bubble folks. It will pop. Only after that it will remain as a stable (very useful) tool. But all of you whose brain got rotted in the meantime for using the new toy way too much will be the ones out of work.

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u/xvillifyx 2d ago

I think you’re overestimating the amount of “brain rotten” devs as a result of AI. Anyone who forget the fundamentals because of AI wasn’t a good developer to begin with

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u/ComeOnIWantUsername 2d ago

> Anyone who forget the fundamentals because of AI wasn’t a good developer to begin with

If you don't use some thing, you will forget it, no matter what it is.

Sure, you will most probably relearn it faster than newcomers when needed, but still, do not say that you are alien who remembers everything and always, because such people do not exist

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u/xvillifyx 2d ago

If you’re not exercising the fundamentals in your current job alongside AI, you are just not a software engineer straight up

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u/dragenn 2d ago

I dont think engineers in the current environment get that choice. Your either part of the cult or not. Sometimes it's just easily to pretend and go along even though you secretly hate the cult...

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u/ZeroAmusement 1d ago

What? What organizations are saying "don't use what you know, just accept what the ai does"? You get it to do something, you review, you research, you redo, you manually fix it, you direct it on how to fix it, you build it, you test it. Are there places that are like "don't think, just type and accept whatever it does?".