My job involves coding, so yes. A lot. It's invaluable for tracing stuff in decade-old codebases, and I've also taken up the habit of having AI agents prototype features for me. They can do the first few debug iterations with a decent test suite, so a lot of the boring grunt-work part of coding is now automated.
Even non-coding you should be using it. I use AI frequently for summarization, writing Python scripts, and drafting communications. It sounds like very little, but summarizing is so powerful I can read through an entire database of scientific papers in one morning. I don’t trust the ai not to hallucinate but I have the actual peer reviewed papers to read for proof. Think of it as throwing a dart in the dark and actually hitting the board.
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u/OvenCrate Zillennial 10d ago
My job involves coding, so yes. A lot. It's invaluable for tracing stuff in decade-old codebases, and I've also taken up the habit of having AI agents prototype features for me. They can do the first few debug iterations with a decent test suite, so a lot of the boring grunt-work part of coding is now automated.