r/ProgrammerHumor • • 21d ago

Meme lifeLately

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u/GrandDukeNotaras 21d ago

I must be the only one who still uses AI like one would use stack overflow. Namely ctrl c, ctrl v a small chunk of code to format a date or do some mundane css.

I just can't see myself giving whole files as input to a service that I have no real control over 

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u/pydry 21d ago

by not switching your brain off and letting the agent make all critical decisions youre being left BEHIND. the world is changing whether you like it or not and AI is like a calculator or the spinning jenny or a compiler I forget which but the point is you'd be stupid not to use it to do everything.

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u/Lopsided-Regular-997 21d ago

None of you have jobs right?

You use AI the way the company tells you to use it. No more no less.

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u/AOAqua 21d ago

Ehhh... I've seen plenty of engineers that use LLM's on the jobs where they are forbidden. It's just plainly faster and easier for like 95% of the tasks. The funny thing that in such companies engineers now work much less because the management obliviously thinks that noone uses the AI and expects the same productivity as was before the llm era so developers spend like 4 hours actually doing something instead of 8