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These sorts of articles just seem silly to me. Use AI where it helps you and avoid where it doesn't. That dividing line may change week to week.

I think it's great for writing tests and sanity checking changes but wouldn't let it write core driver code(I'm a systems programmer so YMMV). Maybe in a month I'll think differently.

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Using a tool as a tool is hard when the market is telling you to use it in everything as if it’s the new sliced bread.

It worked for bread. Why wouldn't it work for AI? I've been baking allen wrenches and screws into my sliced bread for ages, and no single living person has complained about it.

>Use AI where it helps you and avoid where it doesn't

When all you've got is a hammer...

...you'll eventually stop knowing how to use other tools.

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