I am an IT guy at a financial company, I have been put in charge of rolling out Copilot pro licenses to anyone who wants them, I have yet to roll one out for myself.
I learn far more by doing the work myself than to just ask an AI.
The most I use an AI for is like an advanced search engine.
If I am coding something in a web project, then I might ask it something like.
“I want to make a loading bar similar to the humanity theme from Ubuntu 9.04, how can I set up a custom style in CSS?”
I then check the sources and work from there.
I may not be as productive as other people using AI to a larger extent, but I have a better understanding of the end product.
To be perfectly frank, I find AI responses to be quite annoying and mostly just dumb, though it does get good sources.
For technical work, AI can definitely be helpful, but as a tool, not replacement. I work in software development and have used AI to tell me why test runs were running out of memory, after a few suggestions that didn’t work, it did give me the right answer (it was a wrong and unnecessary annotation). Also things like “what is the syntax for configuring a proxy with this-or-that command”.
The thing about technical work is that no matter if the solution is made by humans or AI, you still have to, and can, verify if it actually works. If you ask AI factual questions you genuinely don’t know the answer to and have no way of verifying, it’s your own fault if they are wrong.
I am an IT guy at a financial company, I have been put in charge of rolling out Copilot pro licenses to anyone who wants them, I have yet to roll one out for myself.
I learn far more by doing the work myself than to just ask an AI.
The most I use an AI for is like an advanced search engine.
If I am coding something in a web project, then I might ask it something like.
“I want to make a loading bar similar to the humanity theme from Ubuntu 9.04, how can I set up a custom style in CSS?”
I then check the sources and work from there.
I may not be as productive as other people using AI to a larger extent, but I have a better understanding of the end product.
To be perfectly frank, I find AI responses to be quite annoying and mostly just dumb, though it does get good sources.
For technical work, AI can definitely be helpful, but as a tool, not replacement. I work in software development and have used AI to tell me why test runs were running out of memory, after a few suggestions that didn’t work, it did give me the right answer (it was a wrong and unnecessary annotation). Also things like “what is the syntax for configuring a proxy with this-or-that command”.
The thing about technical work is that no matter if the solution is made by humans or AI, you still have to, and can, verify if it actually works. If you ask AI factual questions you genuinely don’t know the answer to and have no way of verifying, it’s your own fault if they are wrong.