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This has been my experience as well, only the company I work for has mandated that we must use AI tools everyday (regardless of whether we want/need them) and is actively tracking our usage to make sure we comply.
My productivity has plummeted. The tool we use (Cursor) requires so much hand-holding that it's like having a student dev with me at all times... only a real student would actually absorb information and learn over time, unlike this glorified Markov Chain. If I had a human junior dev, they could be a productive and semi-competent coder in 6 months. But 6 months from now, the LLM is still going to be making all of the same mistakes it is now.
It's gotten to the point where I ask the LLM to solve a problem for me just so that I can hit the required usage metrics, but completely ignore its output. And it makes me die a little bit inside every time I consider how much water/energy I'm wasting for literally zero benefit.
That sounds horrific. Maybe you can ask the AI to write a plugin that automatically invokes the AI in the background and throws away the result.
We are strongly encouraged to use the tools, and copilot review is automatic, but that's it. I'm actually about to accept a leadership position in another AI heavy company and hopefully I can leverage that position to guide a sensible AI policy.
But at the heart of it, I need curious minds that want to learn. Give me those and I can build a strong team with or without AI. Without them, all the AI in the world won't help.