I thought it would be an interesting read for anyone, especially those who would want to integrate some AI into RJ TE (it crossed my mind, I must admit )
I felt less competent at doing what was quite basic software development than a year or so before. All of a sudden, it made it very clear to me how reliant I had become on AI tools. Anytime I defined a function, I paused in my editor to wait until the AI tools would write the implementation for me. It took some effort to remember what the syntax was to write unit tests by hand.
With my work, AI started to become less useful over time as well. Not only did it take out the fun for me, but I started to feel a bit insecure about making some implementation decisions myself. Outsourcing the decisions to the AI seemed a lot easier. But sometimes, the AI couldn’t figure things out, even with the best prompts. It was quite clear that because I did not practice the basics often, I was less capable with the harder parts as well.
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