alt Hacker NewsMaybe that would even be justified, if you are a software developer? If not now, at least soon.
Imagine a software developer who refuses to use IDEs, or any kind of editor beyond sed, or version control, or some other essential tool. AI is soon similar, except in rare niche cases.
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sshine • last Friday at 8:13 PM
I've met many people smarter than myself who object to all of those.
One professor thought syntax highlighting was a distraction.
Lots of colleagues used vim/helix instead of IDEs.
I haven't met anyone who refused version control from an intelligent standpoint.
The most reasonable objection to AI from people who don't hate it are:
I just don't know how it could help me; it's not as skilled as me at my job, and I'm already doing fine.
Version control is different since it’s collaboration with the rest of the org.
The rest: if they are just as productive as others, I would not care one bit. Tool use as a metric is just bad.