My AI drought

And so, I’ve used extensively the AIs for a month. Well, what I consider to be “extensively”. I didn’t blindly copy-paste code, but I used the things it generated as a reference.

I use Neovim (btw) so I don’t have access to the latest editor stuff like Windsurf and Codeium. I tried them, and they seem interesting, but honestly I prefer to be blazingly fast with my vim motions than to try to write a perfect description of my problem to the AI such that, just maybe, beats my speed at typing.

Anyway, after a month of mainly using Claude 3.5 Sonnet with a custom Linus Torvalds prompt that “motivated” me by insulting me and my choices 😳 (it actually worked) I will not use an AI. Or atleast as much as before, since deepseek just dropped and allegedly its as good or better that state of the art, and free (discounting the fact that I’m selling my soul to China), but we’ll see.

Honestly, one of the main reasons I was using the AI is the beforementioned Linus prompt. Idk, it just made the process more, “fun”. Regular AI responses are so boring that I might as well just Google whatever I want to use. But Linus? Linus mocked javascript, offered alternative solutions, offered insight into how things worked on a lower level, other than just “install redux haha”.

What I think will happen now is that things will take a bit more time to research. The use I get out of the AIs is a fast research and discover of topics unknown to me. Like, the othed day I showed LinusAI my zig code for storing errors and recovering from them in the parser of my pl, and it (LinusAI) proceeded to roast me, and tell me to use a centralized, program-wide, compiler state for those. And stuff.