I have a boss who tells us weekly that everything we do should start with AI. Researching? Ask ChatGPT first. Writing an email or a document? Get ChatGPT to do it.
They send me documents they “put together” that are clearly ChatGPT generated, with no shame. They tell us that if we aren’t doing these things, our careers will be dead. And their boss is bought in to AI just as much, and so on.
I feel like I am living in a nightmare.
I vibe code from time to time because people sometimes demand quick results in an unachievable timeline. In saying that, I may use a LLM to generate the base code that provides a basic solution to what is needed and then I go over the code and review/refactor it line by line. Sometimes if time is severely pressed and the code is waaaay off a bare minimum, I’ll have the LLM revise the code to solve some of the problem, and then I review, adjust, amend where needed.
I treat AI as a tool and (frustrating and annoying) companion in my work, but ultimately I review and adjust and amend (and sometimes refactor) everything. It’s kind of similar to when you are reading code samples from websites, copying it if you can use it, and refactoring it for your app, except tailored a bit more to what you need already…
In the same token, I also prefer to do it all myself if I can, so if I’m not pressed for time, or I know it’s something that I can do quickly, I’ll do it myself.