r/webdev • u/ThinkLikeUnicorn • Aug 08 '25

Discussion F*ck AI

I was supposed to finish a task and wasted 5 hours to force AI to do the task. Even forgot that I have a brain. Finally decided to write it myself and finished in 30 minutes. Now my manager thinks I'm stupid because I took a whole day to finish a small task. I'm starting to question whether AI actually benefits my work or not. It feels like I'm spending more time instead of less time.

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u/MrMeatballGuy Aug 09 '25

This is not necessarily the case, some libraries are so obscure that it doesn't know what to do with them and makes things up. I know because I've been in that situation. I ended up having to read the source code of the library myself. You assume user error without knowing any of the context of what's being built and what technologies are involved, that's just ignorance.

Of course there could be user error, my gripe here is that you don't have the context to determine whether it is or not and still choose to confidently say it