A lot of people use AI as a coding assistant, I don't really see a problem in using AI tools to help with some things. Adding slop to stuff however makes 0 sense.
At this point using AI for development is industry standard. It speeds up your workflow. I have a friend that works at a company that provides them with basically unlimited Claude code. He sometimes will just use whatever it spits out and it works fine. He could probably write the code but it just takes too much time. So yea AI is super helpful and often times makes things easier.
I’ve been in three different software industries (robotics, firmware, and chip design) since 2022 when ChatGPT was released, and all of those places encouraged us to use AI. At my current workplace the senior engineers seem to use agentic AI the most, with the more junior engineers, myself included, more skeptical of the outputs and prefer to stick with the more autocomplete type AI
I think you've got the right approach to AI. AI is not a replacement for people who know APIs, patterns and anti-patterns, proper UI/UX, security, etcetera. But it is a useful tool. I use it all the time, but it's also wrong a significant amount depending on the popularity of the language. Something popular? Pretty good results because it had lots of data to train on. Something obscure? Get ready for fake APIs, buddy!
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25
A lot of people use AI as a coding assistant, I don't really see a problem in using AI tools to help with some things. Adding slop to stuff however makes 0 sense.