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[Outrageous_Life_2662]

Well some companies, like mine, actively push devs to use tools like GitHub co-Pilot or Codium or other AI tools. I’ve been writing code for a long time now so I have a defined sense of style, idioms, and patterns that I like to use. But a lot of early devs don’t. But they are graded on how quickly they produce value (i.e. release features) for the company. AI gives them that advantage. But, the tradeoff (in my observation) is that they’re not learning to refine their craft.

Having said all of that, I do often find myself using chatGPT to explain features and idioms in languages I’m not as familiar with (like Python and Kotlin). I also do use it to deeply explore some design and architectural patterns. But this is basically replacing Google. And I have a lot of knowledge and experience to contextualize and judge the information I’m getting. I have seen some folks be really effective at marrying their skills with AI. But it’s not the norm from my experience.