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To each their own.

> I use these tools daily and I just don't see it.

So why use them if you see no benefit?

You can refuse to use it, it's fine. You can also write your code in notepad.exe, without a linter, and without an Internet connection if you want. Your rodeo

I don't understand the defensiveness.

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> So why use them if you see no benefit?

I didn't say I see no benefit, I said I don't see the productivity boost people talk about. I conceded they are good for some things, and presumably that's what I use them for.

> You can refuse to use it, it's fine

Where do you work? Because increasingly, this isn't true. A lot of places are judging engineers by LoC output like it's 2000, except this time the LoC has to come from AI

OP said nothing about their employer forcing them to use it.

What they said was: "I use these tools daily".

I have the same experience and still use it. It's just that I learned to use it for simplistic work. I sometimes try to give it more complex tasks but it keeps failing. I don't think it's bad to keep trying, especially as people are reporting insane productivity gains.

After all, it's through failure that we learn the limitations of a technology. Apparently some people encounter that limit more often than others.

> I have the same experience and still use it. It's just that I learned to use it for simplistic work.

OP said "I don't see the productivity boost from AI" and that they don't "believe the hype" without any qualification, but then went on to say that they use it every day. This makes no sense to me.

Isn't this like saying "I don't get anything out of reading books" immediately followed by "I read books for 4 hours every night"?

to be fair, every other comment is usually screaming about how if you aren't able to utilize LLMs effectively, you will be without a job soon. most people want to keep their job, or be employable, so if LLMs are a required tool to know, they're trying to become fluent in it by using it.

> to be fair, every other comment is usually screaming about how if you aren't able to utilize LLMs effectively, you will be without a job soon

I think a lot of these "it's all overhyped crap" posts are a hypocritical.

If someone wants to be consistent with their "it's crap" argument, they wouldn't be using it for anything. Period.

If someone says they need it for their job, then they are admitting that it's useful for their job. Because it would otherwise be irrational to use a tool that makes them worse at their job.

Perhaps the out of job prediction is actually reversed. True, LLMs will become an efficiency increasing tool. But in terms of job security, doesn't that mean that if your whole job can be driven by an LLM then demand for that job decreases?

In other words, people claiming these high productivity increases may be the ones at actual risk. Why employ 3 people when 1 can write the prompts?

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