It's funny but I find AI helps me out when I'm feeling tired.
I like the chatbots that respond immediately, agentic systems like Junie that go off and do a lot of research and ask a lot of permission and then come back with something broken in ten minutes feel like an exhausting waste of time.
Sometimes I get a great answer immediately and it's helpful in debugging because often a bug is in my blind spot. Sometimes I get an answer that isn't quite right but gets me thinking in the right direction. Sometimes it is just plain wrong. I had one argue about whether I could use a null in a switch statement in Java, checking the manual it's clear you can in JDK 21. On the other hand, if I asked coworkers or people online it would be basically the same story.
It's funny but I find AI helps me out when I'm feeling tired.
I like the chatbots that respond immediately, agentic systems like Junie that go off and do a lot of research and ask a lot of permission and then come back with something broken in ten minutes feel like an exhausting waste of time.
Sometimes I get a great answer immediately and it's helpful in debugging because often a bug is in my blind spot. Sometimes I get an answer that isn't quite right but gets me thinking in the right direction. Sometimes it is just plain wrong. I had one argue about whether I could use a null in a switch statement in Java, checking the manual it's clear you can in JDK 21. On the other hand, if I asked coworkers or people online it would be basically the same story.