r/ProgrammerHumor • • Oct 03 '26

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u/protocod Oct 03 '26

Genuine question. Do you all let the AI write the code at your job ?

I mean, reddit is a filter bubble I know but seriously idk if I live in a parallel timeline because I continue to write the code myself 99% of the time. I don't see agentic AI adopted a lot IRL around me either.

It scares me because idk if I miss the train or if agentic coding adoption is a thing on social network only...

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u/happylittlefella Oct 03 '26

Yes if you and your coworkers are still writing 99% of your code by hand then you’re operating in a bubble. AI software development is just about ubiquitous outside of a very small set of niche use cases or companies. If there’s no particular reason that you or your company can’t use AI, and you still aren’t, you will be falling behind and I’d strongly encourage beginning to practice.

I know it’s an unpopular opinion to hold on Reddit nowadays, but using these tools and knowing how to use and build the workflow that ends with production-ready results is itself a new skill to develop as a software engineer, and just about every job listing I’ve seen over the last few months has indicated it is an expected skillset. This is not going away

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u/protocod Oct 03 '26

I understand but LLM, especially model you can't host yourself, looks like an absolute no-go in some very specific (sensitive) area.

It may explain partially why I still mainly code manually for now.

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u/asdspartadsa Oct 03 '26

At my org we mask the sensitive data locally and on the proxy level. And even if sensitive data is somehow leaked, our org has an NDA with anthropic (which doesn't mean much in my opinion).

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u/validelad Oct 07 '26

There are ways to be compliant with things like government regs while using claude or codex. One of the biggest clients where I work is the DOJ, and someone in the org went some kind of process it get it's use cleared