AI this, AI that - you can't go anywhere without something trying to force AI on you. Usually a company trying to get you to buy into what they've wasted billions on. So indie devs have begun fighting back with their No Gen AI Seal.
This is a bit of a tangent but this is a big part of why I didn’t get back into software dev after my team was let go. My old company is basically just a genAI shitshow these days and the entire culture in that industry is fucked.
I’m still in a role adjacent to what I used to do, but I’m much happier here even if it pays substantially less.
Everyone is using it for a reason, as long as you arent doing anything esoteric or bleeding edge, gen AI is about 60% accurate at producing pretty useable results for code. And I say that as a developer with 15 years experience.
If you try and point it at some niche library or framework, or a new version with stuff that just came out, yes, it shits the bed.
But if you just prompt it to do an extremely bog standard task that is already a very well solved problem, 99% of the time it mostly gets it right, right enough that all you gotta do is clean up the formatting and maybe organize it better, make it tighter or better looking, etc, but it’ll complete about 90% of the work up front.
Its extremely good at when all it has to do is just replicate code you already wrote but slightly different, like when you need to just invoke some logic for 1,2,3,4,5… You do it once for 1, start typing for 2 and it’ll just autocomplete it.
Mind you, in neovim Shift+A can do the same pretty well too if you know what you are doing.
But nonetheless, everyone uses this stuff because it works, not amazing but its really really good at doing a lot of the boring/repetitive/easy boilerplate kind of stuff.
If you arent using it, you’re going to start falling behind as other people get better and better at using it.
This is a bit of a tangent but this is a big part of why I didn’t get back into software dev after my team was let go. My old company is basically just a genAI shitshow these days and the entire culture in that industry is fucked.
I’m still in a role adjacent to what I used to do, but I’m much happier here even if it pays substantially less.
Everyone is using it for a reason, as long as you arent doing anything esoteric or bleeding edge, gen AI is about 60% accurate at producing pretty useable results for code. And I say that as a developer with 15 years experience.
If you try and point it at some niche library or framework, or a new version with stuff that just came out, yes, it shits the bed.
But if you just prompt it to do an extremely bog standard task that is already a very well solved problem, 99% of the time it mostly gets it right, right enough that all you gotta do is clean up the formatting and maybe organize it better, make it tighter or better looking, etc, but it’ll complete about 90% of the work up front.
Its extremely good at when all it has to do is just replicate code you already wrote but slightly different, like when you need to just invoke some logic for 1,2,3,4,5… You do it once for 1, start typing for 2 and it’ll just autocomplete it.
Mind you, in neovim Shift+A can do the same pretty well too if you know what you are doing.
But nonetheless, everyone uses this stuff because it works, not amazing but its really really good at doing a lot of the boring/repetitive/easy boilerplate kind of stuff.
If you arent using it, you’re going to start falling behind as other people get better and better at using it.