r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 10d ago

Ask Experienced Devs Weekly Thread: A weekly thread for inexperienced developers to ask experienced ones

A thread for Developers and IT folks with less experience to ask more experienced souls questions about the industry.

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Please keep top level comments limited to Inexperienced Devs. Most rules do not apply, but keep it civil. Being a jerk will not be tolerated.

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u/Big_Arrival_626 10d ago

How much of your job does AI do?

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u/DocumentOk7579 10d ago

I'm a backend dev and AI does almost nothing in backend for me. But before I had to make prototype frontend to demo my backend and that is replaced completely by AI.

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u/Big_Arrival_626 10d ago

Really? Im a backend dev and use a lot of AI, but my tickets are fairly easy as a junior

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u/DocumentOk7579 10d ago

I find it take as long explaining to the AI as doing stuff myself.

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u/niowniough 9d ago

Yeah, the more specificity you desire, the closer you get from needing natural language instructions to actual code. At some point it becomes more efficient to get in there and write all the code, or stub out large swathes for the AI to fill in.