The anti AI crowd is getting crazy. Everyone uses it during development.

It’s a tool for fuck’s sake, what’s next? Banning designers from using Photoshop because using it is faster and thus taking jobs from multiple artists who would have to be employed otherwise?

Not everyone, and it probably multiplies review time 10 fold. Makes maintenance horrible. It doesn’t save time, just moves it and makes devs dumber and unable to justify coding choices the AI generates.

I mean, it’s a tool. You can use a hammer to smash someone’s skull in or you can use it to put some nail on a wall.

If you see it used like that, it’s shitty developers, the AI is not to blame. Don’t get me wrong, I do have coworkers who use it like this and it sucks. One literally told to next time tell Copilot directly what to fix when I’m doing a review.

But overall it helps if you know how and most importantly when to use it.

AI writes buggy and insecure code. It is not usable for any task beyond simple ones, such as asking what color is a carrot, given how much it hallucinates. You should check out Microsoft, with all their infrastructure outages, Windows bugs, and constant screw ups, as an example of the consequences.