You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…
Is ai use normal though? Maybe for you and many others but the existence of these communities, articles, and folks who just don’t get much out of it despite industry cramming it down everyone’s throat would suggest it’s anything but normal.
I don’t doubt it’s normalized in big companies. I imagine the bigger the company, the more ai they use. Big companies have the most to gain from the reduced-workforce ai sales pitch, and the biggest (meta, google, microsoft, etc) need a return on their ai investment (I’ve yet to hear of any demonstrable roi).
It makes sense that anyone in those companies would see it as normal, but it strikes me as an observer bias or frequency illusion. There’s so much ai hype. That is, after all, where the ad money and investments are flowing, but I also see a ton of skepticism, fatigue, and general disenchantment with it, which aligns with my experiences: that it doesn’t compare to a good system of books, notes, and bookmarks-- and that’s not even considering the costs (monetary, environmental, social, and political) which seem completely oversized. So that’s why I remain skeptical of the claim that normal people use ai.
I also participate in nearly a dozen different coding oriented discord channels over numerous frameworks/languages
Across countless individuals ranging from total newbs to professionals, basically everyone at least to some degree uses LLMs in some manner for coding, and it’s an openly discussed and common topic.
You are deeply out of touch with what programmers are actually doing if you seriously think folks who still havent worked an LLM into their process somehow arent the minority.
Confirmation bias and anecdotal information, but hey, feel free to speak in absolute terms. If you read the article you’d realize you’re making a claim that not even Mark Zuckerberg, one month ago, is making.
Is ai use normal though? Maybe for you and many others but the existence of these communities, articles, and folks who just don’t get much out of it despite industry cramming it down everyone’s throat would suggest it’s anything but normal.
I work at a very big company with humdreds of debelopers.
We gotamdatory training awhile ago, and it’s now very much normalized as a concept.
It’s no longer a question of does a dev use it, it’s a question of how much
Some use it rarely, others a lot.
I don’t doubt it’s normalized in big companies. I imagine the bigger the company, the more ai they use. Big companies have the most to gain from the reduced-workforce ai sales pitch, and the biggest (meta, google, microsoft, etc) need a return on their ai investment (I’ve yet to hear of any demonstrable roi).
It makes sense that anyone in those companies would see it as normal, but it strikes me as an observer bias or frequency illusion. There’s so much ai hype. That is, after all, where the ad money and investments are flowing, but I also see a ton of skepticism, fatigue, and general disenchantment with it, which aligns with my experiences: that it doesn’t compare to a good system of books, notes, and bookmarks-- and that’s not even considering the costs (monetary, environmental, social, and political) which seem completely oversized. So that’s why I remain skeptical of the claim that normal people use ai.
I also participate in nearly a dozen different coding oriented discord channels over numerous frameworks/languages
Across countless individuals ranging from total newbs to professionals, basically everyone at least to some degree uses LLMs in some manner for coding, and it’s an openly discussed and common topic.
You are deeply out of touch with what programmers are actually doing if you seriously think folks who still havent worked an LLM into their process somehow arent the minority.
Confirmation bias and anecdotal information, but hey, feel free to speak in absolute terms. If you read the article you’d realize you’re making a claim that not even Mark Zuckerberg, one month ago, is making.