I am uninstalling AI coding assistants from my personal computer
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Re: I am uninstalling AI coding assistants from my personal computer
#2> As I have kept up conversation with my developer friends, it has become essentially the norm, and everyone is being pressed to find greater productivity using AI coding tools.
What a weird alternate universe it is that I live in. My managers are somewhat skeptical of AI workflows and keep throwing up roadblocks to deeper and more coordinated use among my colleagues. Probably because there is so much churn, and it’s difficult to replicate the practice from one engineer to another. Some of my colleagues are very resistant to using AI. I use it quite extensively, but rate limits mean that there are occasions when I must pick up where the machine leaves off.
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#3> Regardless, the lesson for people like myself is that, in order to feel happy with creating, we have to actually create. An artist would not call their work art if they had little to no role in creating it.
Thanks. The author touched something there, close to a truth (or deep belief I got ?) about our life, something about the journey mattering more than the destination...
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#4I haven't had nearly the same experience of success with AI.
I'm often accused of letting my skepticism hold me back from really trying it properly, and maybe that's true. I certainly could not imagine going months without writing any code, letting the AI just generate it while I prompt
My work is pushing these tools hard and it is taking a huge toll on me. I'm constantly hearing how life changing this is, but I cannot replicate it no matter what I do
I'm either just not "getting it", or I'm too much of a control freak, or everyone else is just better than I am, or something. It's been miserable. I feel like I'm either extremely unskilled or everyone else is gaslighting me, basically nowhere in between
I have not once had an LLM generate code that I could accept. Not one time! Every single time I try to use the LLM to speed me up, I get code I have to heavily modify to correct. Sometimes it won't even run!
The advice is to iterate, but that makes no sense to me! I would easily spend more time iterating with the LLM than just writing the code myself!
It's been extremely demoralizing. I've never been unhappier in my career. I don't know what to do, I feel I'm falling behind and being singled out
I probably need to change employers to get away from AI usage metrics at this point, but it feels like it's everyone everywhere guzzling the AI hype. It feels hopeless
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Re: I am uninstalling AI coding assistants from my personal computer
#6> Regardless, the lesson for people like myself is that, in order to feel happy with creating, we have to actually create. An artist would not call their work art if they had little to no role in creating it. Thanks. The author touched something there, close to a truth (or deep belief I got ?) about our life, something about the journey mattering more than the destination...
Re: I am uninstalling AI coding assistants from my personal computer
#7I haven't had nearly the same experience of success with AI. I'm often accused of letting my skepticism hold me back from really trying it properly, and maybe that's true. I certainly could not imagine going months without writing any code, letting the AI just generate it while I prompt My work is pushing these tools hard and it is taking a huge toll on me. I'm constantly hearing how life changing this is, but I cann…
And the irony is that those of us using AI to amplify our output to produce at exponential speeds feel like your comments are gaslighting us instead! Ive never seen such an outright divide in practitioners of a technology in terms of perception and outcomes. I got into LLMs super early, using them daily since 2022; so that may have bolstered the way I’ve augmented my approaches and tooling. Now almost everything I build uses AI at runtime to generate better tools for my AI to generate tools at runtime.
Re: I am uninstalling AI coding assistants from my personal computer
#8I haven't had nearly the same experience of success with AI. I'm often accused of letting my skepticism hold me back from really trying it properly, and maybe that's true. I certainly could not imagine going months without writing any code, letting the AI just generate it while I prompt My work is pushing these tools hard and it is taking a huge toll on me. I'm constantly hearing how life changing this is, but I cann…
And the irony is that those of us using AI to amplify our output to produce at exponential speeds feel like your comments are gaslighting us instead! Ive never seen such an outright divide in practitioners of a technology in terms of perception and outcomes. I got into LLMs super early, using them daily since 2022; so that may have bolstered the way I’ve augmented my approaches and tooling. Now almost everything I bu…
Can we use this micro moment to try to bridge the gap? I was sold on cocaine but all I've gotten so far was corn starch. Is there like a definitive tutorial on this? I mean look I am proud of my work but if I can drop 200-1000/month for the "blue stuff" I'm not gonna turn my nose up at it.
I've been pretty deeply into LLMs myself since 2023 and built several small models myself from scratch and (SFT) trained many more so it's not like I'm ignorant of how it works, I'm just not getting the workflow results.
Re: I am uninstalling AI coding assistants from my personal computer
#9I haven't had nearly the same experience of success with AI. I'm often accused of letting my skepticism hold me back from really trying it properly, and maybe that's true. I certainly could not imagine going months without writing any code, letting the AI just generate it while I prompt My work is pushing these tools hard and it is taking a huge toll on me. I'm constantly hearing how life changing this is, but I cann…
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Re: I am uninstalling AI coding assistants from my personal computer
#10I haven't had nearly the same experience of success with AI. I'm often accused of letting my skepticism hold me back from really trying it properly, and maybe that's true. I certainly could not imagine going months without writing any code, letting the AI just generate it while I prompt My work is pushing these tools hard and it is taking a huge toll on me. I'm constantly hearing how life changing this is, but I cann…
AI coding tools aren't equally effective across all software domains or languages. They're going to be the "best" (relative to their own ability distribution) in the "fat middle" of software engineering where they have the most training data. Popular tasks in popular languages and popular libraries (web dev in React, for example). You're probably out of luck if your task is writing netcode for a game engine, for instance.