You've met some pretty bad senior devs then... We ran an experiment at my work a few months back where we had an AI team VS a traditional dev team. The AI team took 1.8x longer to develop the same feature set, but that's because they spent over 60% of their time tracking down bugs. AI isn't there yet, and in my opinion should never be used for production codebases.
I know how to read code really well, but I'm really bad at writing it (I dunno either lmao) and I threw some stuff I wrote in chatgpt so I can bugfix it, and clean it up. It fucked my stuff up worse lmao. So yeah, ai ain't great at code. And it looks very obvious an ai wrote it too.
I've been using it a lot for supplemental stuff like bash scripts. Mainly because they're shorter (so less chance for bugs from the ai) and it's faster because I usually only touch bash like every 6 months and I have to waste time looking up the stupid syntax, how variables/lists work and what the random alphabet soup of command line args are for shit. If I'm not using something frequently, it gets thrown in the memory hole so gen ai is perfect for it
Oh, i totally agree! I have seen that too where people would ai stuff during working sessions when another engineer would try something, tweak and done while they were still searching.
fformulaa
All the senior devs i know and have met use ai for everything then they just clean up
wolfenstien98
You've met some pretty bad senior devs then... We ran an experiment at my work a few months back where we had an AI team VS a traditional dev team. The AI team took 1.8x longer to develop the same feature set, but that's because they spent over 60% of their time tracking down bugs. AI isn't there yet, and in my opinion should never be used for production codebases.
Kuiper
I know how to read code really well, but I'm really bad at writing it (I dunno either lmao) and I threw some stuff I wrote in chatgpt so I can bugfix it, and clean it up. It fucked my stuff up worse lmao. So yeah, ai ain't great at code. And it looks very obvious an ai wrote it too.
MonkeyPushButton
I've been using it a lot for supplemental stuff like bash scripts. Mainly because they're shorter (so less chance for bugs from the ai) and it's faster because I usually only touch bash like every 6 months and I have to waste time looking up the stupid syntax, how variables/lists work and what the random alphabet soup of command line args are for shit. If I'm not using something frequently, it gets thrown in the memory hole so gen ai is perfect for it
fformulaa
Oh, i totally agree! I have seen that too where people would ai stuff during working sessions when another engineer would try something, tweak and done while they were still searching.