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My productivity is not significantly limited by my ability to generate code, so I see little value in tools which offer to accelerate the process. (I don't use
by marssaxman 1y ago
My productivity is not significantly limited by my ability to generate code, so I see little value in tools which offer to accelerate the process. (I don't use autocomplete, either; I type quickly, and prefer my editor to stay out of the way as much as possible.) I spend far more time reading, discussing, testing, and thinking than I do writing.
The people who rave about AI tools generally laud their facility with the tedious boilerplate involved in typical web-based business applications, but I have spent years steering my career away from such work, and most of what I do is not the sort of thing you can look up on StackOverflow. Perhaps there are things an AI tool could do to help me, and perhaps someday I will be curious enough to try; but for now they seem to solve problems I don't really have, while introducing difficulties I would find annoying.