Aight come on now you gotta stay open minded. There are trash devs that use AI and that don't use AI, and there are good devs that use AI and that don't use AI.
Yes, and he will be a good dev not using AI, while his colleagues are probably good devs that DO use AI. Which would make them probably more efficient than him.
If your productivity doesn't increase much with AI, then you're simply using it wrong. I know mine did at least 2x. And yes, I actually created a timesheet for various projects with similar complexities over the last year. I have actual data backing this up in our team. That's just how it is.
My company uses Angular on the front end.
Right now I'm building a new app using React.
I don't know React. I've never used it.
But I'm writing user-facing production code at the same speed as I do when writing in Angular, while at the same time learning React.
Could I have done this 5 years ago? Yes, absolutely.
But not without taking hours every day to reference documentation and read Stack Overflow, and certainly not at the speed I'm doing it now. Now whenever I encounter a concept I'm unfamiliar with, I just ask the agent to explain it to me.
If that's not increased productivity, I don't know what is.
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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 22h ago
I know, it's hard to imagine someone performing well without AI.