@brettcodes One thing that resonated with me in the post was the choice of using ai being an all or nothing question. I feel mostly the same way. It is very hard to discriminate in daily work about each task where should AI be used or not. If I would limit my usage, I would do it by switching it off completely for some of the time.

@brettcodes I want to clarify what I mean by “you can be just as effective without it”. I mean that I assess that my own productivity and quality of my work has improved a lot after starting to use these tools, but it doesn’t mean that it would have a similar effect in every situation and for every developer.

@brettcodes I use AI a lot at work to code, but I honestly feel like I’ve managed to dodge the pitfalls often mentioned because I’m not under time pressure and I’ve also purposefully learned to take breaks and not multitask at all anymore.

But I think it’s really important that people shouldn’t be forced to use AI and you can be just as effective without it (depends on the personality and strengths of the person I think)

@brettcodes Thanks for the post, I read it and it helped me to understand this viewpoint better. I think a lot of this comes to autonomy and being able to choose your own ways of working without a lot of pressure for deadlines.

AI driven development pushes people to handle way bigger changes than they can understand if you don’t pace yourself and take the time to keep up what is happening in the code.