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[-] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 days ago

As to not be fired. I've been forced to use AI at work, I'm "slower" than the rest of my coworkers even with AI, but I also don't spend half my week fixing bugs for code that I didn't read from the week before.

I'll usually pick a project and tell the robot to figure it out, give it all the context it needs so it's not asking every 5 minutes for access to my whole disk, and let it run. While it's doing that I'll hand code and actually do the work. I'm convinced it's the fact that I still code that I'm able to read and understand what slop need to be ripped out of the robots output.

I might do 2-3 tickets a day while others are doing 5-6, but I also didn't introduce a bug that cost our clients $1,000/day for 2 weeks straight and then didn't know how to fix it so it continued costing them that for 3 extra days while struggling to read code that I didn't write.

tldr: code by hand while the robots running it's task. Don't lose the skill just because you're not as fast.

this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2026
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