I find AI tools incredibly useful for learning about unknown stuff. But ya, when it takes over the creative aspect of a certain thing, things stop feeling fun.
Thanks for the mention, Akos! Looking forward to your future posts.
Thanks, Saurabh! I'm still looking for the right blend of honing my programming skills, without making me too lazy. Next month, I'm going to give a shot at Codex or Claude code, hoping that the added friction between using a separate tool as a consultant will make me more mindful about how I'm using AI.
dittos. It doesn't help me grow as an engineer. I find the time diff between fixing AI code, and reading the docs to do it right my self, is close to equal. AI has helped for grunt work I know well but less so for new things
I want the AI to guide me in topics that are unknown to me, not to do all work (of questionable quality) instead of me.
Sure, once I find a pattern (refactorings are a great example of that), it's super helpful just to outsource the updates that are more complex than find & replace. But to generate solutions for existing codebases, from scratch... I'll spend just as much time reviewing that is it was someone elses PR.
I'm totally not ready to review 1000s lines of AI generated code.
I genuinely believe it can go two ways: you could offboard all your thinking to the LLM, or you could explore new things you’ve always wanted to try but never knew where to begin.
I find AI tools incredibly useful for learning about unknown stuff. But ya, when it takes over the creative aspect of a certain thing, things stop feeling fun.
Thanks for the mention, Akos! Looking forward to your future posts.
Thanks, Saurabh! I'm still looking for the right blend of honing my programming skills, without making me too lazy. Next month, I'm going to give a shot at Codex or Claude code, hoping that the added friction between using a separate tool as a consultant will make me more mindful about how I'm using AI.
dittos. It doesn't help me grow as an engineer. I find the time diff between fixing AI code, and reading the docs to do it right my self, is close to equal. AI has helped for grunt work I know well but less so for new things
I want the AI to guide me in topics that are unknown to me, not to do all work (of questionable quality) instead of me.
Sure, once I find a pattern (refactorings are a great example of that), it's super helpful just to outsource the updates that are more complex than find & replace. But to generate solutions for existing codebases, from scratch... I'll spend just as much time reviewing that is it was someone elses PR.
I'm totally not ready to review 1000s lines of AI generated code.
I genuinely believe it can go two ways: you could offboard all your thinking to the LLM, or you could explore new things you’ve always wanted to try but never knew where to begin.