Andy BalaamWhy I don't use AI
jnr in life@andybalaam I've been thinking about some of this a lot recently. I was paying for a personal subscription for a few months to play around with it and understand it as a tool - as a software dev it seem's I "need" it in my toolbox.
Compared to most at work, I use it infrequently and only when I need to. Personally, I've been using it to learn Rust, but giving it what I want to achieve and then questioning - kind of like a mentor.
@andybalaam This has shown me that an LLM _can_ be powerful, but would be good to use in a different way. So, my thinking is to train my own, specifically for my needs - software languages. The internet has enough information that's got me by so far in my career, and I'm not seeing people build faster, but building more at low quality as well as using it to solve problems that can be achieved by communication, documentation and process