AI is not as foolproof as many want us to believe. In my mind it's like giving a less experienced and error-prone engineer the code I'm working on to refactor.
Perhaps it's because I've always been a lone wolf engineer, but I'd rather do it myself than giving quite an important task to someone less experienced than me, whether I'm writing something new (where I need to be at my best) or refactoring (where I still need to be sharp to understand why it was done a certain way to know how to improve)
AI would help with extracting code into a function, or writing yet another algorithm implementation, or wiring bog standard libraries (say, cURL), but that's like foreplay and lower effort work I enjoy doing as a break from the hard stuff.
And to clarify my comment about AI being an engineer with less experience than me, I'd rather be paired with an actual junior engineer, so at least I can mentor them and help them grow, than just having a machine do something that in some cases might be utterly inane, so I still have to waste time double checking its work, but totally powerless to teach and improve it.
Perhaps it's because I've always been a lone wolf engineer, but I'd rather do it myself than giving quite an important task to someone less experienced than me, whether I'm writing something new (where I need to be at my best) or refactoring (where I still need to be sharp to understand why it was done a certain way to know how to improve)
AI would help with extracting code into a function, or writing yet another algorithm implementation, or wiring bog standard libraries (say, cURL), but that's like foreplay and lower effort work I enjoy doing as a break from the hard stuff.
And to clarify my comment about AI being an engineer with less experience than me, I'd rather be paired with an actual junior engineer, so at least I can mentor them and help them grow, than just having a machine do something that in some cases might be utterly inane, so I still have to waste time double checking its work, but totally powerless to teach and improve it.