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The amount of “you are doing it wrong if you don’t get on our bandwagon” rhetoric I see surrounding AI coding has me convinced that this is a bandwagon I don’t want to be on. That level of insecurity is just not for me.

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Yeah, and the tooling is changing more quickly than JavaScript and is riddled with security issues. I think the best move right now is at best using AI as a (in)glorified Google / Stack overflow and waiting until the dust settles on tooling.

And that’s what I use it for. A rubber duck or a quick reference for verifiable questions. Maybe 5 or 6 questions in a typical day.

I think when I was a beginner programmer it would have been far, far too alluring. But these days the actual coding part doesn’t feel like the hard or time consuming part.

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