The same noise was made about pair programming and it hasn't really caught on. Using LLMs to write code is one way of getting code written, but it isn't necessarily the best, and it seems kind of fad-ish honestly. Yes, I use "AI" in my coding workflow, but it's overall more annoying than it is helpful. If you're naturally 3x-4x times slower than I am, then congratulations, you're now getting up to speed. It's all pretty subjective I think.

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sdesol 6 days ago | parent [-]

> It's all pretty subjective I think.

This is very measurable, as you are not measuring against others, but yourself. The baseline is you, so it is very easy to determine if you become more productive or not. What you are saying is, you do not believe "you" can leverage AI to be more efficient than you currently are, which may well be true due to your domain and expertise.

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leptons 6 days ago | parent [-]

No matter what "AI" can or can't do for me, it's being forced on us all anyway, which kind of sucks. Every time I select something the AI wrote it's collecting a statistic and I'm sure someone is probably monitoring how much we use the "AI" and that could become a metric for job performance, even if it doesn't really raise quality or amplify my output very much.

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sdesol 6 days ago | parent [-]

> being forced on us all anyway, which kind of sucks

Business is business, and if you can demonstrate that you are needed they will keep you, for the most part, but business also has politics.

> probably monitoring how much we use the "AI" and that could become a metric for job performance

I will bet on this and take it one step further. They (employer) are going to want to start tracking LLM conversations. If everybody is using AI, they (employer) will need differentiators to justify pay raises, promotions and so forth.

	▲	leptons 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		>> how much we use the "AI" and that could become a metric for job performance > they (employer) will need differentiators to justify pay raises, promotions and so forth. That is exactly what I meant.