[austin-cheney]

The AI hype, like everything else in software, falls into one of two camps:

1. People that can’t do more than follow trends

2. Young people trying to predict their own future

Everything else is the silent majority.

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So, you believe most software engineers are not using LLMs for coding?

Personally I haven't, but I have used LLMs alongside traditional search engines. I'm starting to wonder if I should incorporate it... But I'm concerned about it stealing my code to train on.

[austin-cheney]

My personal thinking is that AI is being implicitly forced on all of us via the tools we use. Otherwise, I suspect almost nobody would be using LLMs to write original code except for the people who never had the confidence to write original code in the first place.

I also think there is a much larger productive grey zone where some more senior developers are learning to use LLMs to do non challenging tasks as a form of dumb automation. It’s hard to tell how much any of this really occurs because the AI companies and the shitty developers drastically inflate the numbers as a form of validation.