Are there programmers that still don't use AI?
Four months ago I asked if and how people used AI here in this community (https://lemmy.world/post/37760851 [https://lemmy.world/post/37760851]). Many people said that didn’t use it, or used only for consulting a few times. But in those 4 months AIs evolved a lot, so I wonder, is there people who still don’t use AI daily for programming?
Same, but only for ~15 years. I’m amazed at how most of this thread is people saying it’s useless.
Agentic coding (Cursor, Claude code, etc) is an absolute game changer, especially when paired with strong models like opus 4.6.
I used it yesterday to implement a feature I knew exactly how to implement by hand, but it did perfectly in 10 minutes what would’ve taken me at least an hour or two if I had to implement it myself.
My one fear is skill atrophy, I still take certain tasks manually when I have bandwidth just to keep my skills sharp. That’s really the only reason though, modern models are capable of pretty much anything I would throw at them.
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