Ask HN: Why aren't more developers using AI tools?
4 dawie 1 8/14/2025, 10:00:10 PM
I’ve worked in both corporate and startup settings and keep noticing that many talented developers I meet don’t use AI tools at all — not even for small things like boilerplate code, tests, or docs.
Why? Concerns about security or IP? Don’t trust the quality? Slows you down instead of helping? Just don’t see the value?
If you don’t use AI tools (or tried and stopped), I’d love to hear your reasons. If you do use them, what convinced you?
The people who rave about AI tools generally laud their facility with the tedious boilerplate involved in typical web-based business applications, but I have spent years steering my career away from such work, and most of what I do is not the sort of thing you can look up on StackOverflow. Perhaps there are things an AI tool could do to help me, and perhaps someday I will be curious enough to try; but for now they seem to solve problems I don't really have, while introducing difficulties I would find annoying.