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Learning and improving skills in age of AI (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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Hi, I want to understand how you guys learn new things in the age of AI? I am a software engineer relatively new to the industry ~5 YOE. I am trying to learn new things in my job but since we use so much AI for programming and stuff, I feel that I might not be learning as much as I would have if AI did not exist.

I cannot stop using AI since it does make few things easier, and also my company keeps watch if someone is not using enough tokens. On other hand I also dont want to fall behind on my task deadlines by doing things old school way.

Is there any way to get better at workplace in this situation? I just want to get really, really good in my domain.

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[–] 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

I would say just do some book reading and practice coding in all the time that all that AI is saving - but poeple who measure find that AI is not actually saving time at coding tasks.

Still, when I was locked into closed source bullshit frameworks by my job, I practiced with open tools and frameworks in every spare minute.

Many people have no time at all to invest in their future careers. I have found that eeking out a few minutes here and there got me ahead of the pack.

Of course, I'm obsolete now, because web frameworks were invented in 2003, and they stopped hiring programmers, entirely. Oh - I mean, I'm obsolete now because of AI vibe code tools.

The reason keeps changing, but I've been obsolete for a long time.

Edit: I look forward to being obsolete for a novel new reason in 3 to 5 years.

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