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The following is a year 2,065 Bed Time Story featuring a childhood lesson of being adaptable: "Near the end of the 2020s those who rejected AI out of misunderstanding were left behind; those who embraced it grew wealthy and powerful. Meanwhile, the anti-adopters lived miserably, consumed by resentment, blaming everyone and everything for their plight except themselves and their own failure to adapt."
Lately it's taken over code reviews, for myself and when I review other people's code. Extremely helpful. It's made software development fun again.
Using Gemini Pro. No, I adopted it all on my own, but work pays. I love it, even though I can't use it on everything. Most developers here are using it, with approval on a per-projext basis. Lately it's taken over code reviews, for myself and when I review other people's code. Extremely helpful. It's made software development fun again.
No, but I wish it did for stuff like summarizing meetings, etc. Everybody focuses on programming, but the real value in is project management imho.
We recently got Claude Code and there is a very strong push to use it. I recently did for the first time. Spent 15 minutes writing a long prompt to implement a ticket. A repeated pattern of code, 5 classes + config per topic that deeply interact with each other and it did the job perfectly. It convinced me that the current code monkey jobs, which are >90%, >95%? of software engineering jobs, will disappear within 10…
And what will you do when all the seniors retire and there's no juniors to take their place because they were replaced by AI?
* The codebase consists of many modules with their own repo each
* The test back end has a lot of gotchas, borked settings or broken ongoing work by the back-end team
* The code is incredibly layered
I’m spending up to 10% of my time writing actual code. The rest is overhead like multi-repo PR’s, debugging, talking to people etcetera.
Once I found the issue, the code is the easy part and explaining it all to the LLM is more work.
Assistive coding tools need to get a lot better
I've already communicated that I don't want to see nor hear the "but AI generated it this way" opinions. But other than that, I can see the potential, and I'm using it as well. Just not for generation of production code, rather to test assumptions, maybe initial implementations, to make things faster, but in the end I'm always reimplementing it anyway.
Also, to be completely honest, AI does better code reviews than most of my coworkers.