Whatever you believe about what the Right Thing should be, you can’t control it by refusing what is happening right now. Skipping AI is not going to help you or your career. Think about it. Test these new tools, with care, with weeks of work, not in a five minutes test where you can just reinforce your own beliefs. Find a way to multiply yourself, and if it does not work for you, try again every few months.
P.S. I learned that not all of you are developers.
I’m already having a hard time pushing back against the very real AI hype ocean around me…skepticism IS warranted.
Reversing this and calling that skepticism “anti-AI hype” like there are giant worldwide marketing campaigns and billionaire financing for “anti-AI” sounds very silly.
PS: and I want cheap RAM back!
I totally agree that putting AI into everything is pretty dumb and capitalistic. Microsoft Copilot is nothing but Cortana but noisier (and invasive).
But in the area of programming LLMs are actually revolutionising the entire workflow.