It really depends on what you’re doing. AI models are great at kind of junior programming tasks. They have very broad but often shallow knowledge - so if your job involves jumping between 18 different tools and languages you don’t know very well, they’re a huge productivity boost. “I don’t write much sql, or much Python. Make a query using sqlalchemy which solves this problem. Here’s our schema …”
AI is terrible at anything it hasn’t seen 1000 times before on GitHub. It’s bad at complex algorithmic work. Ask it to implement an order statistic tree with internal run length encoding and it will barely be able to get off the starting line. And if it does, the code will be so broken that it’s faster to start from scratch. It’s bad at writing rust. ChatGPT just can’t get its head around lifetimes. It can’t deal with really big projects - there’s just not enough context. And its code is always a bit amateurish. I have 10+ years of experience in JS/TS. It writes code like someone with about 6-24 months experience in the language. For anything more complex than a react component, I just wouldn’t ship what it writes.
I use it sometimes. You clearly use it a lot. For some jobs it adds a lot of value. For others it’s worse than useless. If some people think it’s a waste of time for them, it’s possible they haven’t really tried it. It’s also possible their job is a bit different from your job and it doesn’t help them.
AI is terrible at anything it hasn’t seen 1000 times before on GitHub. It’s bad at complex algorithmic work. Ask it to implement an order statistic tree with internal run length encoding and it will barely be able to get off the starting line. And if it does, the code will be so broken that it’s faster to start from scratch. It’s bad at writing rust. ChatGPT just can’t get its head around lifetimes. It can’t deal with really big projects - there’s just not enough context. And its code is always a bit amateurish. I have 10+ years of experience in JS/TS. It writes code like someone with about 6-24 months experience in the language. For anything more complex than a react component, I just wouldn’t ship what it writes.
I use it sometimes. You clearly use it a lot. For some jobs it adds a lot of value. For others it’s worse than useless. If some people think it’s a waste of time for them, it’s possible they haven’t really tried it. It’s also possible their job is a bit different from your job and it doesn’t help them.