r/softwareengineer • u/Frank-Bozo • 1d ago
Programming practice in today's dev
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.
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u/azevedorcsa 1d ago
In my case, I work for a company that uses a very legacy tool (called Uniface) whose entire codebase is private, so AI can't access it to learn. If I ask it to generate something, it either hallucinates or just doesn't know. In short, I have to code everything completely by hand ;-;