Yes. To add more nuance to what I'm saying the trajectory of the industry and society is heading towards this.
Your company may not be like this now, but the future is where this is all converging. I can tell you at my current company as of now, if you're not using AI it is essentially career suicide for that specific company.
I think these statements are true:
1. An expert using AI is better than an expert without using AI.
2. A mediocre programmer using AI can roughly match an expert that isn't using AI and potentially surpass them in many cases.
3. The companies that aren't using AI are companies that haven't realized that the above 2 things are true.
AI makes people produce consistently worse results.
I will not under any circumstances use AI, not least because it cannot possibly solve a problem I have.
At work, I've already had to "fix" some incredibly faulty projects caused by well-intentioned people thinking they can use AI to write code. I started with `rm -rf *` and moved on from there.
That's you and your anecdotal experience against raw data from the entire world.
I don't get how people like you give their one off experiences and think that validates their world view when the world is changing right before your fucking eyes. To each their own and agree to disagree because honestly your anecdotal experience is right in front of your own eyes too. I just don't get how you can't reconcile that with the rest of reality of basically EVERYONE using AI all around you. How about some nuance like, sometimes AI screws up, but often it does better? That realistic viewpoint may not fit the world view you wish existed and so you choose the most one sided lack of naunce world view you can possibly make.
Do whatever you want. But somewhere in the back of your mind, you know you're just being stubborn.