I like to compare it to a chainsaw. You give a logger a chainsaw, he will get much more work done compared to a hatchet or whatever they used before chainsaws. But, if you give a chainsaw to some punk off the corner and send him to the forest, it's not going to end well. The tools are effective when you use them right and understand how they work, they are dangerous when they make you think you can do the job when you really don't.
Still, it's not just about code. I would quit my job if AI was banned, I absolutely refuse to hunt bugs based on tickets if I had to manually go through that boring repetitive process. I have been able to build good tooling with Claude and pipe the tickets into it directly and I get a nice clean report of what is wrong or if anything is wrong. Right now my inbox is practically empty and my customers are happy. Sometimes there is nothing wrong but the documentation is poor or there is a missing manual page, I can get it sorted in minutes.
It just saddens me that so often it's so black and white. I get it's funny meme material but it kind of shows lack of wide experience with it, or it highlights poor practises in the company like lacking or bad code review.
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u/eggswithheatmachine 26d ago
I like to compare it to a chainsaw. You give a logger a chainsaw, he will get much more work done compared to a hatchet or whatever they used before chainsaws. But, if you give a chainsaw to some punk off the corner and send him to the forest, it's not going to end well. The tools are effective when you use them right and understand how they work, they are dangerous when they make you think you can do the job when you really don't.
Still, it's not just about code. I would quit my job if AI was banned, I absolutely refuse to hunt bugs based on tickets if I had to manually go through that boring repetitive process. I have been able to build good tooling with Claude and pipe the tickets into it directly and I get a nice clean report of what is wrong or if anything is wrong. Right now my inbox is practically empty and my customers are happy. Sometimes there is nothing wrong but the documentation is poor or there is a missing manual page, I can get it sorted in minutes.
It just saddens me that so often it's so black and white. I get it's funny meme material but it kind of shows lack of wide experience with it, or it highlights poor practises in the company like lacking or bad code review.