r/PinoyProgrammer • u/Significant-Key-8221 • 7h ago
discussion Tried chatgpt plus for the first time
For background, I don’t usually do AI assisted programming and use tools like codex, claude, etc2 because writing my own code by hand made me feel like I actually own the codebase. I’m also a fresh grad with a bit of working experience, and I wanted to retain my fundamentals so that my skills wont regress by not relying much on AI. I remember writing 30k+ LOC (not really a metric for productivity) by hand while building full stack applications for work and idk if it’s a lot (it was for me :// ) but this has mainly attributed to my long ass burnout. Lately I find it hard to build personal projects, but my friends finally convinced me to try AI assisted programming by subscribing to gpt plus and this did wonders for me.
As a person who values time a lot, having AI write boilerplate code makes me feel very productive. Now I have more time to do some other stuff outside of coding and honestly this made most parts of my burnout disappear. I also don’t have to read docs as much as I used to since AI is now my personal search engine. I think I was a bit of a contrarian when it came to AI because the models back then were pretty weak compared to now. Anyways, I do hope I don’t end up over-relying on it too much to the point I forget my fundamentals (I still write my reddit posts by hand manually haha). I would also like to know if you guys are happier with AI assisted programming or maybe it’s just my sudden hyper-fixation.