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Ask HN: Can you cut off AI usage immediately?
I’m bit concerned about my AI usage.
I use AI extensively in my work because it is required and TBH I don’t love my job, so it’s nice to cut off the boilerplates and automate many tasks.
For my personal projects AI is discuss only mode. But I found I learned a huge amount from it, and without it I wouldn’t be able to complete any of my side projects. There is no guarantee that Stackoverflow and Google can reach the same level of help.
I found that I am relying on AI too much. And if somehow ChatGPT (my primary AI agent for personal projects) becomes more expensive or get nerfed, I might be forced to purchase a bigger license. What about you?
- vunderba 6mo agoPersonally I spent the vast majority of my software engineering career without access to AI and feel relatively confident that I could pick up right where I left off. Humans are pretty adaptable. For example like many others, I became pretty reliant on Google Maps to get me wherever I wanted to go in the early 2000s. Later, I moved to Taiwan, and my phone didn’t have anywhere near the same capabilities - zero access to any of these smart map systems. I found my ability to navigate and locate places spatially came back, just like riding a bicycle. I don’t think those skills permanently atrophy; I think they just go a bit dormant. That being said, I can't speak for newer, more junior engineers especially the coming generations who will grow up always having had access to LLMs.
- cyanydeez 6mo agoim running local. itd take several acts of god to intrerupt my workflow.
- markus_zhang 6mo agoThis is a good idea. What setup do you use and how does the model perform?
- cyanydeez 6mo agoAMD 395+ w/128B. Qwen3-coder-next running from llama.cpp; opencode seems to have the best depth. It can get to around 80k context before pooping out.
- sunilkumarai 6mo ago[dead]