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by gonzalohm 16 days ago
Yes it is. You don't need to announce whether you are using AI or not. Just keep doing your job, use AI when it pleases you and keep building manual code when you think that's better.

That's what I do, I have never been asked if I use AI to write my code.

If it's dumb code I use AI. If it's something that I want to craft I don't

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Where I work % of code written by AI and AI spend is tracked all the way down to the individual person.

It is obvious to me that this will be used in performance reviews in the future.

They started doing that tracking where I worked until last summer, stress so high, GERD kicked in worse than it'd ever been and that's going back to the 1980's. I retired, and I do thank God I was able to. I now just dabble every week or so in my personal side projects.
Garbage like this is why the tech industry desperately needs widespread unionization.
That's so stupid. Let the agent write code that will never be used then and you focus on the important code
What's stupid in my opinion is this idea that the LLM can't be used to write good code. Like you use it for throwaway code.

I use LLMs heavily, bit it doesn't diminish the quality of my code at all. If anything it raises the quality. Because I keep it on a tight leash and make sure every like of code is what I want it to be. If you let the thing run wild for hours and barely glance at the result sure you'll be producing slop. But there's nothing stopping you from being more involved using it as a tool rather than a slave, and getting great results that way.