Same here, everyone goes crazy for it and looks at me with suspicion for not using it. And I look at them with rage when I ask them what something does because it looks sus af and they hit me with “idk, the AI wrote it, it said it had a good reason”. Or when my team lead tells me to work on his AI generated library that we ended up replacing with a 150 line class, I have no clue how he managed to generate an entire project around nothing…
So far the only actually good uses we found for it is as a companion for PRs, because the AI occasionally spots bugs relating to the bloated archaic libraries we use, and for app documentation, because we have 20 years of technical debt and lost knowledge that every human so far has refused to sit through, so an AI summary is better than nothing.
It’s funny cause I use AI in like the opposite way, I don’t dare let it change or add code unless it’s really simple and tedious, and even then I watch it like a hawk.
How I use AI is to teach me about repos and libraries with obscure, hard to understand, or even no documentation. I do ask for help when I hit a roadblock but rather than taking the code it gives me, I dissect it. I ask what each little weird thing does and why it’s there and the AI’s explanations give me enough to look up the right things and verify it’s legit. Then I’ll write my own version with the confidence that I know what each piece means.
Same here, everyone goes crazy for it and looks at me with suspicion for not using it. And I look at them with rage when I ask them what something does because it looks sus af and they hit me with “idk, the AI wrote it, it said it had a good reason”. Or when my team lead tells me to work on his AI generated library that we ended up replacing with a 150 line class, I have no clue how he managed to generate an entire project around nothing…
So far the only actually good uses we found for it is as a companion for PRs, because the AI occasionally spots bugs relating to the bloated archaic libraries we use, and for app documentation, because we have 20 years of technical debt and lost knowledge that every human so far has refused to sit through, so an AI summary is better than nothing.
It’s funny cause I use AI in like the opposite way, I don’t dare let it change or add code unless it’s really simple and tedious, and even then I watch it like a hawk.
How I use AI is to teach me about repos and libraries with obscure, hard to understand, or even no documentation. I do ask for help when I hit a roadblock but rather than taking the code it gives me, I dissect it. I ask what each little weird thing does and why it’s there and the AI’s explanations give me enough to look up the right things and verify it’s legit. Then I’ll write my own version with the confidence that I know what each piece means.
Maybe if more people used AI so mindfully, we wouldn’t be in the slop hell we find ourselves in 😭