Over the past year, AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Claude have become part of many developers’ workflows. Some teams report significant productivity gains, while others argue that AI mainly speeds up boilerplate code but still requires careful review.
I’m curious about real-world experiences.
Has AI genuinely made you more productive?
Which tasks do you trust AI with (coding, debugging, documentation, testing, code reviews, etc.)?
Have you noticed any downsides, such as incorrect code, security concerns, or over-reliance?
Do you think AI will change the role of software developers over the next few years, or will it simply become another tool in the development stack?
I’d love to hear how you’re using AI in your day-to-day development work and whether the benefits outweigh the challenges.
Yes, both regarding coding speed and thinking outside the box. I have tested Vibe coding, but found that being a mess. Fast, but almost impossible to maintain or understand.
All but documentation.
If I write good prompts, I get brilliant code sometimes. Sometimes a complete mess. And we do have different perspective on security. AI is addictive.
How knows? Vibe coding is conveniently, but when I asked AI itself about Vibe Coding I got some warnings about short term thinking (what happens 5+ years from now with your app?)
AI is an electric wheelchair sort of. Comfortable. But used too much it may resulting in that you cannot walk by yourself in the future…
Definitely not documentation, testing* or code reviews*
*: If the originator is AI. Never remove a human from the cycle entirely.
In my own code: Logical errors.
In others code: Over-reliance is a MASSIVE problem.
Those two things are not mutually exclusive. That said, I do think (like pretty much any new technology) we’re currently riding in a bubble, that will deflate. However, it wont deflate back to pre-AI, it will find its ‘normal’ place.
I’m curious. Are you counting the amount of time it takes you to craft the prompt in the coding speed? Because that’s a negative towards your productivity. You are “coding” your prompt sufficiently verbosely for the AI to generate what you want.
You must be a great writer then, if you’re able to get a full fledged prompt for an AI to write you some brand new code in less than a minute and actually have it come up with something that matches what you wanted.
In my opinion yes, it increase productivity if use properly; but don’t believe the hype that vendors of AI tell you of increases of 10x; they are trying hard for you to buy their service.
For example let said AI write the code, you have to carefully review it, so you become the bottleneck, so to speak.
Another thing that as @Sibertius mention, if you overrelied on AI, your skills atrophic. The have been numerous studies to support that.
And remember when the 2:00 am call come, they are not going to call AI, there are going to call you.
