You can ask AI how code works too, though. And it’s always available, whereas the human who wrote the code may not be.
Several times now I’ve come across a project that looked interesting but wasn’t well documented, and I just dropped the Github link into an AI chat and asked it to tell me stuff about how it worked. What algorithms were used, and so forth. Really handy.
I literally had a coworker the other day tell me they couldn’t work on something at all because they were out of tokens. Outrank me, make more than me, and it’s a customer-facing issue that is likely part of an incident in production (nevermind that they apparently didn’t even know about the issue that I, not even on their team or product, found).
We also have another project that I took over when moving to my current team. Boss had AI write documentation because of course there was none. It was wrong almost as much as it was correct.
You can ask AI how code works too, though. And it’s always available, whereas the human who wrote the code may not be.
Several times now I’ve come across a project that looked interesting but wasn’t well documented, and I just dropped the Github link into an AI chat and asked it to tell me stuff about how it worked. What algorithms were used, and so forth. Really handy.
I literally had a coworker the other day tell me they couldn’t work on something at all because they were out of tokens. Outrank me, make more than me, and it’s a customer-facing issue that is likely part of an incident in production (nevermind that they apparently didn’t even know about the issue that I, not even on their team or product, found).
We also have another project that I took over when moving to my current team. Boss had AI write documentation because of course there was none. It was wrong almost as much as it was correct.
Until the AI companies run out of money.