Working software developers of the Fedi, what's your relationship with AI coding (like Claude Code)?
| Don't like it. I don't use it for work. | |
| Don't like it. I have to use it for work. | |
| It's complicated. I don't use it for work. | |
| It's complicated. I have to use it for work. | |
| It's complicated. I happily use it for work. | |
| I like it. I don't use it for work. | |
| I like it. I have to use it for work. | |
| I like it. I happily use it for work. | |
| Other, comment below. |
| Poll! | |
| poll. |
I wonder what the distribution will look like if we get to 100-200+ votes.
My hypothesis is that the more casual Fedi users are more likely to use AI coding in some way.
Update:
- Started at 28% some sort of AI Coding use at ~60 votes.
- 36% at 336 votes.
@mayintoronto I'm just absolutely astounded that there's this many professional coders who *aren't* required to use it in some form for work yet.
The enterprise-grade/enterprise-cost tools are far better than the basic stuff.
We have a monthly per-dev credit budget so literally on a prompt by prompt basis I have to decide which model to send it to, based on what I'm doing and how much budget I have left.
Claude Opus 4 is definitely the best. If I get all the context loaded right and give an essay-length prompt full of requirements, it will usually get something I can send out for code review with little corrections. It is also the most expensive by far.
Claude Sonnet and Claude Haiku are not worth using.
GPT-5 Codex High is next best and gets you 90% of what Claude does but at 1/3 the cost. I usually reach for it as my primary model.
GPT-5 Codex Medium is half the cost of High and I use it for simpler tasks or fixing up other models minor mistakes.
The whole gemini family is infuriating. It often does the right thing on the first prompt but when it gets things wrong it does it in the most infuriating, non-obvious way and once you see it, it absolutely refuses to take correction.
@dalias @lackthereof A lot of serious businesses are adopting it too across the size spectrum. As silly as the Claude Code source looks, there are some super legit use cases in even legacy enterprise type software. (Especially while the prices are hyper deflated to get people hooked on it.)
Is it still legit when they have to charge profitable prices? Probably not.
My workplace is an old stodgy multinational megacorp. My team produces rack-scale infrastructure appliances. The file I was working on on Friday had a git history dating to 2004 (partially imported from CVS).
We're not making app-of-the-week stuff, we're definitely not chasing VC funding. But management seems absolutely terrified that if we don't adopt LLM driven development practices, like, yesterday, we're going to be left in the dust by all our competitors who have.
@lackthereof @mayintoronto
I'm required to use it. I don't use it.
I just spend the amount of tokens they want me to.
No one cares.
@kwazekwaze im probably going to be "required" to use it shortly, which is unconditionally not going to happen
@erisceleste @lackthereof @mayintoronto
Morally it's no better than using it "for real" but I'm not about to submit in spirit just to make my job even more tooth grindingly tedious.
I absolutely see it as complying in advance though to accept these mandates at face value and go online to say "Yeah I use it, it works, but it's miserable to use".
They just want to see the token burn. It's an even more nightmarish LOC. No one actually cares.
@kwazekwaze tbh im just desperately trying to think of any other job i can do that would cover rent, at this point
fuck programming.
fuck tech.
@kwazekwaze and utterly fuck the people who destroyed the only thing in my life
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