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One Month Without AI

188 points · 228 comments · saibotk

  1. assimpleaspossi · · focus · HN ↗
    I find it strange to see people writing articles like this as if everyone has used AI for decades. I've programmed for decades. I thought I retired three years ago but got an offer I couldn't refuse. Already there were little things I'd forgotten how to use.

    Over the past six months I tried using Claude, chatgpt, Grok and Gemini. At best I got reminders of how things worked. People online say they use them to write their code. The code they supplied to me has NEVER worked or was so convoluted that I threw it away and did it myself.

    At most, I use these tools as search engines. Even then some references are poor.

    I'm starting to think this is becoming a sad, sad world and AI is just the new TV of the programming world.

    1. tokioyoyo · · focus · HN ↗
      Would you mind disclosing what type of software you work on?
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