@aburtch @falcennial @AdaraAstin there are two things that ‘management’ say that I find so deeply toxic “you won’t be replaced by AI, you will be replaced by someone who uses AI to be more productive in the job..” And “when did you last use AI? If you have to think about it, you haven’t built the habit. Here are how people use it in their personal life outside of work ….” … I think stay out of my personal life!! But the hyper-mediation through ‘chat’ is being forced upon us. I want search and the need for research from sources.
At work the ‘tools are available.’ And sometimes three is utility. I am glad I am no longer a professional developer. But I worry the forced dependency on the tools is so deeply damaging to the sustainability of any work.

Learning, friction, fibre and deep work are all important. Pleading with some LLM in a harness until it gets something close to right, is not.

@falcennial the frame of the question makes it hard to answer ‘chat with’ as in ‘conversation’ (not at all). ‘Use as a tool’ = few times a month...maybe more… but it’s not chat. So I answered that.