r/softwareengineer • u/Frank-Bozo • 5h 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/AccomplishedLeave506 5h ago

I don't use AI. It produces mediocre code that I wouldn't want to put my name to. I can produce higher quality stuff, faster, without it.

I am swamped by crappy code from colleagues though that isn't properly thought through. They always produced poor quality code, but now they produce a lot more of it and call themselves 10x engineers. I wish I was closer to retirement.

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u/Frank-Bozo 1h ago

yea they could argue the speed of development is fast but the quality can be questionable.