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Plot twist, they don't either. They just throw more hardware and try things up until something sticks.
Why? Because when the bubble burst and the companies (including mine) can not pay the 400% price increase and go bankrupt, then I still have keep my brain active and still can do stuff without or less tokens.
This was pushed back hard by management because it "took too much time to create a ticket". I fought it for some months but at the end I stopped and also really lose the ability and patience of do that. Juniors suffered, implementation took more time. Time passed.
Now, I am supposed to do the exact same thing, but even better and for yesterday.
Given it to new people of course carry questions, but most of them (juniors) could just follow the code given an entry point for that task, this from BE to FE.
I use the github copilot premium models available.
> I routinely make an implementation plan with Claude and then step away for 15 mins while it spins - the results aren’t perfect but fixing that remaining 10% is better than writing 100% of it myself.
I have to be honest, I just did this two times and the amount of code that needed to be fixed, and the mental overload to find open bugs was much more than just guide the LLM on every step. But this was a couple of months ago.
What is the pain there?
Even when I already hear from them that "it helps them in language they do not know" (which is also my experience) I get frown upon if on meetings I do not say that I am "Actively using AI to GENERATE whole files of code".
I use AI as rubber duck, generate repetitive code or support me when going into an new language or technology, but as soon as I understand it, most of the code given for complete, non hobby, enterprise level projects contains either inefficient code or just plain mistakes which takes me ages to fix for new technologies.
Honestly, I have no energy to be as social as the work life needs me to be, maybe that is ok. Maybe no.
Then I need to expend extra time following everything it did so I can "fix" the problem.