Name is still on it – learning to ride the AI motorcycle without crashing

even the primary assumption of the article:

"ai gives you speed, but not direction"

is misleading at best, disinformation at face value.

LLM code generators give you the _illusion_ of speed when they are working, because you personally feel like you put in a lot less effort than the machine did, and it seems to have done so faster than you could have...

BUT

Every time I deal with one, I get 1 of these results:

1. the obvious answer that is within the first three hits on a web search (waste of time and tokens)

2. the incorrect answer that is outdated because, eg, squirrel-brained js devs can't maintain compatibility or consistency (waste of time and tokens, and worse, if you have confidence in the system over your knowledge, you waste your own time having to sanity-check the answers)

3. pure and utter hallucinated bullshit, which often can be smelled at great distances, and is easy to spot as an hallucination (waste of time and tokens, but less than 2, because you don't waste your own time trying to verify invalid answers)

AI isn't coming for your job. All the companies replacing humans with AI will figure that out fast enough, or die trying.