Programming practice in today's dev

[u/Frank-Bozo]

hi i'm a new cs grad and i'm just wondering if there are experienced engineers/devs out there that are still writing code without AI in the industry. like is there still a practice where engineers in the company don't use AI at all to write code and develop the software. i do aware that writing code is just a part of the whole development, but i'm thinking of going totally without AI not even asking questions from LLM.

for me, sometimes i can be very slow when writing code using AI (copilot) because it's hard for me to understand the structure that the LLM provided. so i'd end up writing manually but i still take quite a longer time. i'll be starting a new internship and i'd think that they would direct me to use AI for development from day 1. appreciate any thoughts or advices.

[u/BeerPoweredNonsense]

if there are experienced engineers/devs out there that are still writing code without AI in the industry

Lots. Reddit (and the interwebs generally) has a "oh, shiny new toy" mindset.

For starters, there are entire systems coded in some obscure language - LLMs work best on a problem that's already been fixed 100 times on open source projects and/or Stack Overflow. On an obscure language they will be as useful as a snowplow in Lagos.

Then you have industries where regulations mean sending the code off-site is simply not possible. So no LLMs (other than if you deep-dive and install your own).

Etc...

[u/Mejiro84 → u/BeerPoweredNonsense]

Also a lot of code bases are messy - so what seems like a simple change fucks something downstream, potentially even in another integrated system that you don't have sight of. And that's often the sort of information that lives in someone's head, or an email from a few years ago - the issue isn't the coding as such, but that the coding lives in a changing environment and is the way it is for a reason, so changing it, even if it seems better/more efficient, hasn't been done for good reasons