[chrisco255]

LLM does 0% of my work, don't know what to tell you. LLMs are like 3 years old, I learned to do everything I know without LLMs, how is that hard to believe? How do you think all the software you use everyday, including this site itself, was written? 99.99% of it without any LLMs at all.

Do I use LLMs as an alternative to Googling? Absolutely. That doesn't mean AI is doing my job. Google and Stack Overflow also do 0% of my job. It's great as a reference tool. But if you're going to be that pedantic, we've got to count any help I receive from any human or tool as doing some % of my job. Do I count the open source software I build on? Do I count Slack as doing some % of my job since I don't have to go into the office and interface with everyone face-to-face? Does Ford get some of the credit for building the vehicle that gets me to the office?

Have I used a meeting transcription tool? Occasionally, yeah. That doesn't mean it does any part of my work. My job was never to transcribe meetings. Do I use it to brainstorm? No, I've found it's fairly useless for that. Do I use it to create presentations? No, I just write my slides the old fashioned way.

[gonational]

It's hard for nupeople to understand that people from our generations learned how to do things and to use our brains. The younger tech folks only do things that the computer automatically knows how to do and/or AI can help with. Even UI design and basic stuff is purely done on web-based tools with prebuilt components and AI help these days. I'm completely shocked from day-to-day when I interface with front end/design. I would venture to guess there aren't many front end peeps that even know how to code HTML & CSS these days.

In my opinion, the only thing that AI is helpful for is doing all the menial boilerplate nonsense that is only necessary because the unexperienced people in charge of so many projects. For example, setting up 30 totally unnecessary GitHub actions, etc. Anything that is worth doing, I'd rather do myself and not lose my skills.