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There’s so much evidence out there of people getting real value from the tools.
Some questions you can ask yourself are “why doesn’t it work for me?” and “what can I do differently?”.
Be curious, not dogmatic. Ignore the hype, find people doing real work.
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They're good questions! The problem is that I've tried to talk to the people who are getting real value from it, and often the answer ends up being that the value is not as real as they think. One guy gave an excited presentation about how AI let him write 7k LOC per day, expounded for an entire session about how the rest of us should follow in his shoes, and then clarified only in Q&A that reviewers couldn't keep up so he exempted himself from code review.
Most people don't have a problem with using genai for stuff like throwaway UI's. That's not even remotely relevant to the criticisms. People reject having it forced down their throats by companies who are desperate to make us totally reliant on it to justify their insane investments. And people reject the evangelicals who claim that it's going to replace developers because it can spit out mostly working boilerplate.
It's like watching somebody argue that code linting is going to change the face of the world and the rebuttals to the skeptics are arguing that akshually code linting is quite useful....
I’m an AI skeptic. I like seeing what UIs it spits out, though, which defeats the blank page staring into my soul fear nicely. I don’t even use the code, just take inspiration from the layouts.