Have you even tried using them though? Like in earnest? Or do you see yourself as a conscientious objector of sorts?

This whole topic makes me remember the argument for vi, and quick typing. I was always baffled because for the 25 years since I can code, typing was never that huge block of my time that it would matter.

I have the same feeling with AI.

It clearly cannot produce the quality of code, architecture, features which I require from myself. And I also want to understand what’s written, and not saying “it works, it’s fine <inserting dog with coffee image here>”, and not copy-pasting a terrible StackOverflow answer which doesn’t need half of the code in reality, and clearly nobody who answered sat down and tried to understand it.

Of course, not everybody wants these, and I’ve seen several people who were fine with not understanding what they were doing. Even before AI. Now they are happy AI users. But it clears to me that it’s not beneficial salary, promotion, and political power wise.

So what’s left is that it types faster… but that was never an issue.

It can be better however. There was the first case just about a month ago when one of them could answer better to a problem than anything else which I knew or could find via Kagi/Google. But generally speaking it’s not there at all. Yet.

I have tried using them frequently. I've tried many things for years now, and while I am impressed I'm not impressed enough to replace any substantial part of my workflow with them

At this point I am somewhat of a conscientious objector though

Mostly from a stance of "these are not actually as good as people say and we will regret automating away jobs held by competent people in favor of these low quality automations"