A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.
A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.
I don’t really derive a sense of accomplishment from it, so I don’t get the dopamine hit. It’s more write a simple bash script to do X because I hate working in that syntax, or this library has terrible documentation, tell me how I’m supposed to use it.
You still need to read and understand everything it writes, but it’s easier to validate something is correct sometimes rather than figure out the correct way to do something.
Also the freaking essays it writes as comments burying the useful information in the equivalent of a recipe blog post when you really just need assumptions about input, and side effects.
That’s what I’ve been saying too. AI is very much what you put in you get out. If you actually know what you’re doing, it’s a great little shortcut tool*. Ask stupid questions win stupid prizes, kind of.
* for SOME tasks - terms and conditions apply
I definitely don’t get the high of coding anymore, but I do get a high of solving complex issues in architectural designs. I realized the high I chased when coding previously have shifted from coding design, to systems design.
I never got a high from coding, now compiling and seeing your tests have a green [PASS] next to them is a different story.
I get high when I stare at a terminal screen nonplussed for hours and suddenly it clicks and I fix it.
That’s a rush for me.