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Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer

Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer

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  • > I'm ashamed of lying about what I've done

    You should be, and being a liar makes you a worse developer, not better, regardless of the technical output.

    by JohnFen
  • Great, now I don't even believe your story, you big fat liar.

    JK .. we all do it from time to time

    by spottedmarley
  • But it's true that you learn a lot by explaining working code to others. That's also why I write on my homepage. Most of the code isn't entirely written by me. I bring it in from open source and other places, and as I review and curate it, I find that the next time I use that code, I understand it much better and it's more helpful.
    by jdw64
  • Seems like you are breaking the contract with your peers. There are lots of reasons to reject AI generated work.

    You are deceiving your peers who you have accepted as being the managers of the approach to this work.

    You cannot realistically justify this fraud. You should own up and stop contributing.

    Please note I say this as a person who only write AI code. Even if you query your AI it will say the same thing.

    by deadlast2
  • That’s good. But you shouldn’t mistake a “cursory” understanding where you can talk the talk to be equivalent to actual in-depth knowledge of the problem/solution.

    There are depths of understanding that can only be gained by executing and mutating the code and understanding its behavior deeply. Not that it even matters in the end. But feeling like we understand something and actually understanding it fully are 2 different things that we should just remain aware of.

    by manuisin

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