alt Hacker NewsHere's why I don't get why people are badmouthing AI assist tools from Claude for Excel to Cursor to any new AI assist tool.
Why not try it out, and if it doesn't work for you or creates more work for you, then ditch it. All these AI assist tools are just tools.
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Konnstann • last Saturday at 6:41 PM
The problem arises when there's outside pressure to use the tools, or now you're maintaining code written by someone else through the use of the tools, where it could have been good enough for them because they don't have to deal with downstream effects. At least that's been my negative experience with AI coding assistance. You could say "just get a new job" but unfortunately that's hard.
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Anecdotally, I've seen people do just that. Say, "I've tried it, it either didn't help me at all, or it didn't help me enough to be worth messing with."
But pretty consistently, such claims are met with accusations of not having tried it correctly, or not having tried it with the best/newest AI model, or not having tried it for long enough.
Thus, it seems that if you don't agree with maximum usage of AI, you must be wrong and/or stupid. I can understand that fostering feeling the need to criticize AI rather than just opt out.