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.

@samir I'm hearing it everywhere in my product circles. We can't get away from it in product management, and it's even worse for our dev counterparts.

@lackthereof

@samir @lackthereof And you can see from the poll, 23% of devs on the fedi are essentially forced to use this. ~40% use it in some form at work.

Spend any amount of time job searching and "AI-enabled [your job here]" is now a minimum requirement, whatever that means. I don't know how long teams can push back for.

@mayintoronto @samir @lackthereof one question is whether the true cost of the "code assistant" models is currently being hidden by VC subsidies, and whether executive opinions change once they're having to pay the true cost of the service.

But I'm worried.