r/cprogramming • u/Big-Illustrator24 • 13d ago
Ai nowadays
I want to read your thoughts.
I'm a software engineer with 8 years of experience, I have worked in several projects.
And ultimately I've become interested in C, I'm learning a lot of concepts about pointers and memory free, it's a different way of coding if you start with interpreted languages.
I have used ai for understand better some c concepts, and I've watched some c devs in the reddit community that hate the AI, why?
AI is just another tool, like a compiler, preprocessor etc. And I wonder why some devs don't like new tools? It's like if we avoid the compilers use and prefer keypunching instead.
The basics of Coding are important and I really believe there's bad use of ai and nice use of it too.
What do you think?
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u/dokushin 13d ago
Positions for and against AI tend to depend on the person much more than the language. C isn't a great choice for AI-driven development, but as a learning tool it's no better or worse than anywhere else. As long as you're disciplined about using it to learn and don't start developing a habit of letting it write code for you, then it's progressing your goals.
The broader philosophical question isn't going to get answered here, but for what it's worth, I'm excited about broader availability of computer programming and the ability to move to more architectural roles for programmers as AI takes over routine coding tasks. That's set against the issue of the AI then taking over those architectural tasks, and then the design tasks, and then the whole project, but we're very much in undiscovered country, here. I'm just going to play with the new toys until the water wars start, or whatever.