At my day job (not going to name the company) they have been pushing AI coding, and frankly I have found it to be essentially useless. As a simple test, I used

At my day job (not going to name the company) they have been pushing AI coding, and frankly I have found it to be essentially useless. As a simple test, I used Claude under GitHub Copilot to develop a simple program to blink an LED using a task under zeptoforth (my Forth implementation for ARM Cortex-M, which is on GitHub so it should have been in their training set) on a Pimoroni Pico Plus 2... which took a few hours to complete because it was constantly hallucinating my API's and getting minor points wrong that I had to tell it to fix... for it to only screw something else up the next time around... repeatedly. Then the next day they had us do an "agentive AI training" where we were supposed to use "agentive AI" to program example stuff... and I found it worked to a point ─ until it didn't work, and I could never actually make it do what I really wanted it to no matter how hard I "vibed". It just hit a stopping point where no amount of prompting would make it work. And then there's the actual use cases for AI at my day job ─ I have not seen any that apply to me. I write only limited amounts of code ─ I do not churn out the boilerplate that AI is sold as obviating ─ and the code I do write has to be correct, for values of correct where simply looking correct is not sufficient (and an AI won't know the underlying math behind things or how to avoid things like race conditions). If I actually used AI I would be spending more time trying to understand its output and having to fix it than I actually spend developing code, and I would have a harder time trusting the resulting code. I know how my code works because I wrote it ─ the same would not be true if I had an AI write my code for me. Sure, there are people at my day job who have gotten fully on-board with the AI thing, and who see it as being useful for things like, say, changing the C++ standard for a whole project at a time. However, I would not be able to trust the project after that point myself. Yes, it would take much more time to manually update the code, but then it would be much easier to trust afterwards, and would require far less fixing to handle all the cases where the AI screwed up.