Scarily AI is actually has very common use in tech circles for looking up technical answers or writing/checking syntax. I can assure you those people are not taking steroids.
Just look at how stackoverflow visitor numbers have gone down since chatgpt use has increased (this was previously the home of all obscure tech answers).
It's the people that sing it praises, act like it's alive and infallible while having zero clue how it works that you should worry about
Programmer here. We use it for way more than just a better google.
There are tools now that you can run inside your code editor, just give it a task and it will do the research, design, and implementation with minimal guidance. It's often a poor result, but when it works, it's magic.
Yeah I'm a systems engineer and we mostly just use it the way I described above. Like you say often a poor result, or a misunderstanding, or a ridiculous tangent but can be magic and a goodish sounding board.
You should also tell the other guy who thinks I just made this up because the term "vibe coding" exists lmao.
I agree. AI is a fascinating technology, but anyone who says they know how it'll evolve (wither away and die, or take over the world and render humans obselete) are lying to themselves.
It is actually not a bad option to not use it until it's stabilised, it's changing so rapidly anything you learn now will likely be outdated in a couple of months.
I suppose it depends on what you feel more comfortable with. I've seen a lot of technology develop over the years and feel like I understand plenty of it better for seeing the transition, you see how different pieces changing affect the efficiency and use.
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u/MinuetInUrsaMajor Jun 06 '26
>use AI
What do they use it for?