Ask HN: Who else is not using AI for coding?
12 puttycat 5 6/12/2025, 11:36:02 PM
Reading posts and comments on HN makes me feel I'm lagging behind everyone by not using AI when I program.
I use PyCharm which added some kind of AI-based code completion which is mostly helpful but also often wrong. That's the maximum I am using. I don't trust it to write full functions and honestly don't feel any need for it.
From reading comments here I understand that prople use "Agents" to program and swear by them, but I didn't even feel the need to search for what this means.
Is everyone moving ahead and I'm left behind?
I suspect my capabilities will be more rare in the near future due to the dumbing down caused by extensive LLM usage in every aspect of our trade.
I see this as dodging a sort of bullet.
Llm as a starting point are a much better alternative to those.
So perhaps start by just asking llm coding questions instead of searching Google and stack overflow