January 5, 2026 at 12:00 am
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January 5, 2026 at 11:05 am
The more AI you use, the less I will stay in your head.
I avoid it like the plague when coding.
January 5, 2026 at 5:01 pm
I think you're missing out. AI tech can help with coding and save time. It makes mistakes, as do other humans, but it also gets plenty right.
January 7, 2026 at 12:18 am
(Try 2: I hope this isn't a second post of the same general thoughts as the first one seemed to disappear.)
I generally agree with Steve that AI can add significant productivity, for select tasks anyway. I have found AI to be really helpful.
That said, I think AI works best for experienced developers who already know best practices and good development patterns. I've seen AI make bad suggestions beyond the obvious error/bug, leading someone to create code that technically works, but is a bad way to do it for long term maintenance. It takes experience to know when AI is going down the wrong path. Further, I somewhat agree with erwin 79260 in that you can ask AI to quickly generate a complicated formula or line of code, and if you don't already know the details of how that code works, using AI does not help you get the concept "in your head"/truly learn the code and get the experience you need.
Hence my concern is that new developers might use this technology "for productivity" and lose something (or fail to gain necessary basics) in the process.
This has been my experience anyway. As we continue to work with this new technology, we can figure out what is good use vs harmful use.
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