I'm a software engineer and I'll discuss it with you, rather than just down voting and walking away.

Your use case for AI allows it to excel. Writing self contained scripts and small pieces of functionality for automation is a great use case for AI, but it isn't what software engineers do. There is a saying that you won't have a design problem in a code base under 10,000 lines, then all you have is design problems, and this is what AI is bad at. It can't maintain or update or extend much larger code bases, and it can't interpret user vagueries into concrete requirements and features.

For me it is useful for prototyping, and for boilerplate code where I know exactly what I want but its faster to prompt it than to type it all out. I wouldn't use it for anything critical without carefully reviewing every line it generates, which would take longer than just writing the damn code.

I also have a big problem with the reliance a lot of people are building on AI. Remember how every other service you've used goes through 'enshitification'? This will happen to AI. Once they need to be profitable and the shareholders need to get paid, the features will get worse and the prices will go up, and you will have to pay those prices if you can't work without it. Just something to bear in mind.

Use it if it's useful. Don't become reliant on it. You seem interested in coding, why not try coding something simple yourself? Try looking up the documention to see if you can use your wet brain first, and only go to the AI after. You might find you actually enjoy it, or solve problems faster because you remember how you solved them before.

Let me preface with a fuck microsoft.

Yet you're praising copilot, and likely using an editor built and maintained by Microsoft (VS Code). I'm confused.

code architect wizard

Okay, this is some pretty decent trolling. In the forest of low hanging fruit the current global political atmosphere has brought us, I'm glad there's still people out there putting in the effort to hand craft some decent bait.

You give me hope, Gaja0. Keep up the good work.

Hi. Welcome to Lemmy. Where most people passionately hate AI. Some for good reason. Some out of pure hate only ever seen in a conservative when faced with any sort of change.

As I'm typing this, your comment has a "socre" (is the the right term for vote count?) Of 1. You will son find you and I are both way more under voted than we should be.

I once say someone at like -25 for saying "the main value Spotify has for me is that their AI helps me discover new music".

Edit: when ever I say something stupid or make a mistake and send up getting downvoted, I take pride in keeping my comment up. It's only human to make mistakes, and I hate people who pretend to be perfect. But since in this case I'm jumping into the shark waters with you, I'll delete this when I get bored

Edit 2: changed trying for typing