Mastodawn

Are there programmers that still don't use AI?

Are there programmers that still don't use AI? - Lemmy.World

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?

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locuester Feb 26

Yes. Daily. Nonstop.

I’ve been a dev for 40 years. This tech is incredible and enables me to create at an unthinkable pace.

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melfie

As much as I hate the people destroying supply chains and the economy who pretend it’s some sort of a silver bullet, I’d be lying if I didn’t agree coding agents are a productivity boost when used with appropriate guardrails. I’ve been using Qwen3 with Roocode the last couple of days, and while it’s not as good as GH Copilot with Claude models, it feels a lot better using something hosted on my own hardware. When used with the Context7 MCP server, it doesn’t make up APIs like Claude does, so it’s better in that one aspect.