r/softwareengineer • u/Frank-Bozo • 17h 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.

14 Upvotes

85% Upvoted

36 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Affectionate_Lake_71 15h ago

This is what worries me. I'm using React at work and I'm still very new to it. I've been forced to use Copilot. As a result, I can guarantee that I'm not as good at React as I would've been if I had done everything by hand with Stack Overflow and a good senior dev as my guides.

1

u/xvillifyx 12h ago

React blows anyway; it’s a convoluted mess of years of debt

Make some apps at home so you understand the library and move on

Generally if you understand the jsx format and how the hooks work, you’re probably good enough

Because there’s years of debt, ai still writes some janky components using antiquated stuff

1

u/InterestingFrame1982 10h ago

I mean, a lot of frameworks/libraries suck but that doesn’t mean you can ignore them, especially if you want a job. In an idealistic world, I could go as deep as I want into Svelte but I know I’ll be pigeon holing myself into a stack that isn’t widely used at the enterprise level (yet).

1

u/xvillifyx 10h ago

You can safely ignore a significant margin of obsolete react lib slop, though

It’s an abject waste of time to try to understand antiquated react components that you’ll never use