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80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful
(www.zdnet.com)
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Pair programming/writing/creating is exactly how AI is meant to be used. It is an augmentor not a replacement for human competence. The person using it still has to do the thinking, qc, and directing, not take the first output as final.
And always with skepticism!
A couple other cool things I've seen experts do:
The first: finding bugs which, considering the scarcity of humans capable of bugfinding doesn’t seem so bad in our weeks with finite hours.
Next, really tedious work that experts do know how to do, but simply wouldn't prioritize because they have lives. A big one seems to be reverse engineering, like to give new life to ancient hardware. “I connected over USB at , give me control.”