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>I feel like an editor now, more than an engineer. I know the kinds of things I'm looking for, and I use AI to walk a solution in.

I agree. I think it's fine to do so. I usually prefer to write my code without AI (except for bootstrapping it).

In my work as a DE, I mostly use AI to write scripts for me. For example, how to do this in PySpark? I kinda refused to memorize any of these because I'm simply not very interested, and I can always spend a week to memorize the fundamentals if I need.

In my side projects, I use AI extensively. Same as you, I use AI for problem space mapping, or sort of. For example, I have some source code, how do I structure them better? I have read the MIDI standard and thought this piece of binary code means blah, can you please confirm for me? Well AI is OK for these kinds of work.




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