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> I think every engineer should be using AI daily. Why?

Cthulhu_ 4mo ago
Please read the full paragraph for the answer instead of cherry picking a quote for a knee-jerk reaction: > Be curious, try the new tools, test the latest models. To not do so is silly. > [...] > you could delay adopting “the cloud” for a couple of years and survive. With AI you might get a few months. The way we work has already changed, and it’s not changing back as far as I can tell.
- Trasmatta 4mo ago
  I read the entire paragraph, and the entire article. Nothing in there explained to me why every engineer should be using AI every day.
  - elxr 4mo ago
    Because I don't think that's the point of the article, which is just a commentary about how AI labs are marketing the effectiveness of their services by using terms like "8x more code per quarter" like that's an obvious good thing (which it isn't). If you want a more in depth explanation, go look for interviews with devs who were already super-productive before LLMs and now came around to using them everyday.
  - sanderjd 4mo ago
    If you read the paragraph, then why did you just ask "why?" instead of expressing your opinion about the explanation given in that paragraph?
- weakfish 4mo ago
  > you could delay adopting “the cloud” for a couple of years and survive. With AI you might get a few months. I really dislike these claims that act like they know the future of engineering, that they’ve been let in on some enlightenment that we haven’t been. What’s going to happen in a few months? Is Sam Altman going to nuke my house from orbit? Or is it because my CTO is going to fire me for not using AI? If it’s the latter, that’s not a curiosity problem, that’s a “there’s a gun to my head” problem.
  - Trasmatta 4mo ago
    It seems to be based on some idea that there's no way you can be productive enough without AI. But I've yet to see any companies really shipping meaningful software at some unprecedented speed that was not possible pre-AI. Instead, I see a lot of half baked features and buggy apps. I am not convinced that those that choose to either NOT use AI or use it more sparingly / judiciously (my preference), are somehow going to be "left in the dust".
    - weakfish 4mo ago
      Yeah, I’ll second that. I see folks moving _fast_, but boy oh boy are they breaking things (or delivering something that never worked) which if anything makes _me_ slower lol
      - Trasmatta 4mo ago
        And also delivering things nobody wants or will use, just because they can.
elxr 4mo ago
Because it's fun. And why shouldn't we be into incremental automation? I still write code manually to keep my trad-coding skills from withering away, but using AI without a doubt has allowed me to better test my existing apps. Create playwright automations I would've never had the time for. Allowed me to search through docs many times faster. And it just making programming more fun when I do use it for more challenging problems, and I actually get something working at the end of the day.
- Trasmatta 4mo ago
  Sounds like it's working for you, but none of that explains to me why every engineer should be doing that, and every day

Please read the full paragraph for the answer instead of cherry picking a quote for a knee-jerk reaction: > Be curious, try the new tools, test the latest models. To not do so is silly. > [...] > you could delay adopting “the cloud” for a couple of years and survive. With AI you might get a few months. The way we work has already changed, and it’s not changing back as far as I can tell.

Trasmatta 4mo ago
I read the entire paragraph, and the entire article. Nothing in there explained to me why every engineer should be using AI every day.
- elxr 4mo ago
  Because I don't think that's the point of the article, which is just a commentary about how AI labs are marketing the effectiveness of their services by using terms like "8x more code per quarter" like that's an obvious good thing (which it isn't). If you want a more in depth explanation, go look for interviews with devs who were already super-productive before LLMs and now came around to using them everyday.
- sanderjd 4mo ago
  If you read the paragraph, then why did you just ask "why?" instead of expressing your opinion about the explanation given in that paragraph?
weakfish 4mo ago
> you could delay adopting “the cloud” for a couple of years and survive. With AI you might get a few months. I really dislike these claims that act like they know the future of engineering, that they’ve been let in on some enlightenment that we haven’t been. What’s going to happen in a few months? Is Sam Altman going to nuke my house from orbit? Or is it because my CTO is going to fire me for not using AI? If it’s the latter, that’s not a curiosity problem, that’s a “there’s a gun to my head” problem.
- Trasmatta 4mo ago
  It seems to be based on some idea that there's no way you can be productive enough without AI. But I've yet to see any companies really shipping meaningful software at some unprecedented speed that was not possible pre-AI. Instead, I see a lot of half baked features and buggy apps. I am not convinced that those that choose to either NOT use AI or use it more sparingly / judiciously (my preference), are somehow going to be "left in the dust".
  - weakfish 4mo ago
    Yeah, I’ll second that. I see folks moving _fast_, but boy oh boy are they breaking things (or delivering something that never worked) which if anything makes _me_ slower lol
    - Trasmatta 4mo ago
      And also delivering things nobody wants or will use, just because they can.

elxr 4mo ago

Because it's fun. And why shouldn't we be into incremental automation? I still write code manually to keep my trad-coding skills from withering away, but using AI without a doubt has allowed me to better test my existing apps. Create playwright automations I would've never had the time for. Allowed me to search through docs many times faster. And it just making programming more fun when I do use it for more challenging problems, and I actually get something working at the end of the day.

Trasmatta 4mo ago
Sounds like it's working for you, but none of that explains to me why every engineer should be doing that, and every day