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I have been tuning out for the last ~3 years and unfortunately it hasn't been the best strategy because the hype is still running roughshod all over me

It is very likely my employer will use my AI apathy as an excuse to include me in the next round of layoffs, compared to my coworkers that are very AI enthusiastic

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Maybe 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.

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.

They're not that hard to learn how to use. If your employer asks you to use one then just learn whatever tool the license you for, it's not that big of a deal. It's like learning how to use your employer's official IDE or email client.

What exactly am I supposed to learn?

Cursor is just VSCode with annoyingly slow intellisense and bad code suggestions, what is there to learn, genuinely?

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