-5%
Why? Legacy code and the inability of AI to work with anything that is not standard. I spend more time finding errors in the code generated than I would’ve needed to write it myself.
And don’t get me started on inefficiency like nested loops which are fairly easy to avoid, but AI seems to just love them.
AI simply sucks.
Double? Triple?
And your output before AI? 😄
More than yours a guarantee.
Oh shit, yeah? Bet. Tough response, fragile ego detected.
I was just asking bruh 😎
You were not just asking. We both know what that emoji meant
Tell me, what did it mean? Go on and tell me what I mean with my own words and text, go on. 🫴
Me too, at least for frontend web development. I do a lot of backend but when I need a frontend screen, AI works exceptionally well.
when I need a frontend screen, AI works exceptionally well.
You might think so if you’re not a frontend dev 🫣
Just because you can’t use a tool to accomplish your tasks doesn’t mean that others can’t.
Just because it produces a desirable output on the surface doesn’t mean the produced code is maintainable (or bug free; as a non frontend dev it might be difficult to know what to test for as well).
Agreed. It’s funny to talk to people who haven’t figured out how to work AI into their workflow.
My day is full of pulling issues and making random content changes. I can say, “take this screenshot and lay it out using this page as an example.” And bob’s your fucking uncle it does it pretty perfectly.
My day is full of petting my cat and focusing on real work instead of laying out dumb shit for marketing.
Just laugh at the people who complain, they’ll be unemployed while you embrace change.
funny to talk to people who haven’t figured out how to work AI into their workflow.
Funny you assume they haven’t figured it out as opposed to just realized they don’t need it for literally anything.
real work
Define “real”? Not all web dev is “laying out dumb shit for marketing” as you imply you’re doing for a living.
Maybe you’re doing unimportant web dev work but I’m doing new, patented, award-winning, scientific web-based software that an AI would never be able to produce because it hasn’t been done yet.
Your job is doing a bunch of stuff that’s already been done a million times, I suppose(?), but you are very poor at putting yourself in others’ shoes with the way you are so cocky and confidently incorrect about others’ work situations.
I will not be unemployed for a long time, as a senior web dev. Haven’t even needed to setup an AI agent at work because I produce results quickly enough anyway. 👍
I don’t have a screenshot to go on either most of the time because I’m entrusted to come up with the solutions myself. It’s not always so simple as your job.
Maybe now you understand how things work for someone else than yourself and you won’t sound like such an elitist schmuck in the future. 👌
You sound very much like you’re going to lose your job within ~3 years.
That’s all you got? I’ll be fine. 😆
You sound replaceable af considering a machine can do your job.
Bet you’ll be replaced within 3 years. 😉
Tell me how you’re unemployed without telling me you’re unemployed.
I’m very much employed, wtf lol. Tell me you know nothing about people or development without doing so.
OK, explain your job. What is the industry? What’s your stack? How long have you been doing it? The other developers that you work with, if any, how do they feel about AI?
Science, kind of. Multivariate data analysis (MVDA), with lots of large customers in pharma, but the science/math is applicable to any production field.
The current stack is just a React app hosted by a local server installed as part of the desktop software suite, but clients are free to install it independently with their own server stack setup.
I’ve been at this company for over two years, professional web dev for almost a decade, and teaching it in academia for almost a decade before that. And doing web dev in school and privately for almost a decade before that.
The other developers seem to have installed Microsoft’s copilot, and every single one of them seem annoyed by it. It does a good job as a snippet producer but often has to be corrected for even such small tasks.
And they’re not even web devs. I’m the only one in my team.
Well, copilot sucks.
Look, all bullshit aside, I’ve been an active and employed developer for 22 years. If you don’t learn how to embrace AI in your workflow you are going to be trampled by people who have. It might not be perfect now, but look how far it has come in just a few years. In a few more, it’s not going to be a “snippet producer.”
A long time ago, you might remember, we used to just put code into .js files and ftp them. Then build steps became a thing, and it changed how everything was produced and deployed, for the better! There were many developers who rejected this concept and continued on with things like jQuery, dozens of js files, working on the server, no local dev, etc. Those people either changed their thinking or they lost their jobs.
This is one of those times.