The first time I found out about AI I thought, Soon, he’ll take my job from me, and believe me, if it comes to my job, I don’t joke around. And so, the hatred began.
We were like Shrek and Donkey, me thinking AI was just going to steal my job, and AI just being there, clueless about the whole thing
Dictatorship
After a while, I thought, If you’re going to cost me my job, you’d better answer my day-to-day questions. So I started treating him badly and bombarding him with lots of questions.
Not That Smart
One time, while being the dictator, I asked him a complex question. He gave me a small piece of code. I ran the code without looking at it, and it didn’t work. I told him, It’s not working, and, as usual, he said, You’re right! and corrected the code.
I ran it again, and it failed again. So I asked him over and over, but still nothing. Eventually, I started to look at the code myself, and guess what? I solved it in under a minute.
In that moment, the light of hope shone within me, and I realized I had a chance to keep my job. After all, I guess he’s not that smart.
Relationship Got Better
After that incident, my heart softened toward him. I started to treat him better and began to see his potential.
Best Friends
Now, we’re best friends. If I want to learn something, I ask him. If I have doubts about programming, I ask him. Want to ask a girl out? I ask him. He formats my blogs, gives me suggestions about life, and almost everything I do, I ask him how to do it.
He’s the best doctor for health questions, a senior developer for programming challenges, and the perfect therapist for my life’s problems.
I’ve learned not to copy him blindly. Now, I see him as a friend who helps me become better, not as an enemy who’s going to take my job.
Conclusion
There are a lot of discussions about whether AI is going to replace humans or not, but only time can tell. Until then, why not enjoy the journey and use AI to make ourselves better?
So, what about you? Do you see AI as a rival, a tool, or maybe even a friend? Share your thoughts and experiences in the comments, I’d love to hear your AI story!
Top comments (29)
It's funny because I feel like that's the journey to AI for everyone. It becomes the goofy side-kick that you end up realizing you can't live without. Haha!
P.S Had to share an Eddie Murphy Meme since Donkey was brought up.
Thanks for mentioning Eddie Murphy😁
People fighting AI and AI assisted coding, are the same breed of people denying the use of syntax highlighting and IDEs back then, when these tools were coming. Of course, I didn't experienced that time, but a professor once told stories about that time.
vim is all you need.
Kidding1
My first step on company laptop, where even the github was blocked is create Open AI question in vim, and that is working fine.
what do you mean with that?
1 vim to rule them all
It takes time to adapt, once they see how useful it is they will love it!
I agree and it is definitely foolish not to try.
The leap from “I realized it wasn’t good enough” to “now I use it for medical questions” seems … pretty huge.
Personally, the frequency with which Copilot gets stuff incredibly wrong makes me less interested in exploring different usecases for LLMs.
You are right you can't trust AI with sensitive stuff like medical but it just suggest things to you and you have to double check it, reliability is a big issue for LLM applications but it shouldn't stop you to give them a try and let them help you. As I said don't copy blindly from AI.
For me, the amount of double-checking I have to do makes it slower to use than not for a whole host of things.
The uses I find for Copilot are 99% intelligent autocomplete, where I type in a couple variables and it will correctly guess the next few (if I’m converting something from elsewhere in my file). That stuff is helpful, for sure.
Thanks for the article, chuckled ⭐️
What it that’s exactly where AI wants you? 🤔 I’m kidding, I agree with you - ChatGPT automates a lot of tasks that can be automated- interactive search, classification, data processing and manipulation. It’s as precise as information on the internet (and we all know that if it’s on the internet it must be true, even Albert Einstein said so himself!).
I’m planning on offloading even more tasks into AI - for instance writing same css/html layouts over and over again becomes boring rather quickly and I’ve seen solutions that can prototype limited in their stack, but working full stack solutions, so there’s definitely a lot more to explore.
Happy you liked it! Totally agree, offloading repetitive tasks like layouts to AI is a game changer.
I've written an article somewhat about this before!
Will AI Replace Us? 🤖
Best Codes ・ Feb 17
It's a bit outdated now, perhaps I'll make an update soon…
As for how I see AI, I look at it like an assistant. Developers who use AI will replace developers who don't.
Thanks for sharing!
If I'm being honest. AI has been absolutely amazing when it comes to learning new things and debugging. Instead of going through forum posts of answers, I can quickly ask it a simple, often-asked question to get a quick and easy answer. For more advanced things, however, AI seems to lack a little behind professional developers. I still have a lot more to learn.
Exactly, I still look at StackOverflow old answers first because I trust them more and then ask AI but I will no more ask new question on StackOverflow unless it's something really new that AI don't know yet.
I use it for the most mundane questions and is now my life coach… he knows my preferences, my goals, my dreams. He knows me better than anyone else!
On top of that, I have created a few GPTs: I have an AWS Tutor who answers all my questions related to AWS. I have a GoLang expert who helps me write idiomatic go and tells me fun facts.
It feels like a team of experts working for me and it is awesome.
Exactly! It feels great to have a powerful assistant.
Ok woah. I couldn’t stop laughing while reading it, as if I was reading a comic. On a serious note, it's really amazing seeing the transition from hating the ai to gradually warming up to it.
At first I too was scared of it as well. But as I started testing its capabilities, I began to doubt my own doubts and just went along the flow knowing, "The time hasn’t come yet for AI to replace or overtake me."
Nowadays, I use AI as a helpful tool for creative tasks like structuring blogs or articles, improving sentences I’ve written, or even composing emails. And sometime while coding.
Thanks for saying that! my goal was to make it fun while reading it , I'm glad that it worked.
That's a nice take. GPT is most suited to summarize documents for me, saving me hours of work, so yes I will agree as a grad student, we became good friends over the years.
Thanks for sharing🙏🏻
I liked how the post exposed my silent skepticism about AI
But you didn't speak about one. Front-end development risks complete automation by AI in near future
I even asked chatGPT what "skepticism" mean😁
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