[bluefirebrand]

The problem is that it doesn't actually matter if it really makes a programmer more productive or not.

Because productivity is hard to measure, if we just assume that using AI tools is more productive we're likely to be making stupid choices

And since I strongly think that AI coding is not making me personally more productive it puts me in a situation where I have to behave irrationally in order to show employers that I'm a good worker bee

I am increasingly feeling trapped between a losers choice. I take the mental anguish of using AI tools against my vetter judgment or I take the financial insecurity (and associated mental anguish) of just being unemployed