Don't paste the AI.

Or maybe just don't use AI at all? It's not a reliable source of information, it's unsustainable in terms of resources consumed, it's unethically trained and it makes everyone's lives worse.

it makes everyone’s lives worse

that part is untrue.

Fair enough, it makes Jensen Huang's life better, I suppose.

Mine too ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Just like all those developers from the study who thought they were 19% faster but were, in fact, 10% slower?

If that study is the only thing you have as an argument you won’t get very far (though it is worth it to read the thoughts of some of the participants: domenic.me/metr-ai-productivity/).

It is very helpful to me as a developer: I can now write entire custom tools, one-off scripts and services for myself I otherwise wouldn’t (because it would take too much time and too much effort), it catches a lot of logic bugs in code reviews as a first pass, it’s good at generating unit-tests, etc, etc.

But coding is not all there is. To me as an immigrant, AI-based translation is a godsend. Same for writing scary-looking letters to government officials or applications for apartment viewings. Same for learning a language, actually. When I was looking for a new job - I used ChatGPT’s automation to filter out crappy job postings and parse feedback on Glassdoor for the interesting ones. Like, genuinely, if we imagine for a moment that there’s zero moral and environmental issues with AI and you still can’t think of any possible applications of it for yourself you’re either just not doing anything or you’re dead.