[koenschipper]

I think I'm in the middle, at first I was definitely against using any AI because I loved the craft. But over the past 12-18 months I've been using it more and more.

I still love to code just by hand for an fun afternoon. But in the long-term, I think you are going to be left behind if you refuse to use AI at all.

[vaylian]

"Left behind" in terms of speed or are there other aspects that people are missing out on?

[cableshaft]

Speed has a lot to do with it, yeah.

A.I. is now often doing in 5-10 minutes what would take me hours on my own for any given task (well based on the last couple of weeks at least, I wasn't doing much agent based A.I. coding before that).

I was pretty much having a real-time conversation with my superiors, showing them updates just a couple of minutes after they suggested them, for a feature the other day, getting feedback on how something should look.

Something that would have taken me an hour or more each time they wanted a change or something new added.

Now that cuts both ways, as it started to seem like they were expecting that to be the new normal and I started to feel like I had to keep doing that or make it seem like I'm not actually working. And it gets exhausting keeping up that pace, and I started worrying when anything did take me extra time.

[wiseowise]

> I was pretty much having a real-time conversation with my superiors, showing them updates just a couple of minutes after they suggested them, for a feature the other day, getting feedback on how something should look.

Seems like a nightmare.

[cableshaft]

I did choose to do it, so it wasn't a nightmare. I was wanting extra guidance on what to include, and so I asked them (while they both weren't busy), they gave me feedback, I did that in like a minute or two with A.I. (when normally it would have taken me a lot longer), so I showed them and was like 'how's this?' and they said 'could you change it to be like this?' etc back and forth for about 45 minutes. It was about the equivalent of a call except it was over Slack and I could provide something they could look at quickly.

What could be considered to be a nightmare, perhaps, is suddenly feeling like 'uh oh, is this going to be the new normal. Will I have to keep doing this all the time now, or else they think I'm not getting any work done?'

[koenschipper]

Yes, absolutely agree. I have that feeling too that we have to keep up that pace. But it is not realistic that everything can happen at that same speed.

How do you deal with that feeling?

[cableshaft]

I don't really know, the client I've been working at for the past 4.5 years has only given me access to agent based A.I. two weeks ago, so this is all pretty new to me (it's a large corporation and they didn't allow it until very recently).

I experimented with it a bit a couple weeks before that on my own personal projects as well, but I don't feel that same push when I'm doing my own projects, obviously (well, if I do, it's because I choose to).

[ares623]

It's this season's "have fun staying poor"