u/SomedayGuy117

How high do you think it'll go with 5 hours left?

I do infrastructure deployment, mainly using Terraform within GCP. Recently my company has decided to go all in on AI for everything because they always follow industry trends (I think it’s kind of ridiculous). Managers are all tell us that we need to be using AI to help with all our coding to be more efficient.

I’ve been using Claude to help me debug and write code for a good while now but I’ve only been doing so from the web GUI, lots of copy and pasting. We’ve recently were given full access to Copilot on VS Code and it is extremely eye opening how much faster I can work but after a few weeks of using it, I feel like my brain has completely atrophied. When I was using Claude to help me write configs, I was at least reviewing and changing things to make it fit and do what I want; now Copilot does everything and all I do is glance at what files are being changed then committing those.

I don’t even feel like I do any actual work anymore. I run my pipelines, if they fail, I throw the errors in vs code and have AI change whatever it needs to change and rerun. A lot of back and forth where I feel like I’m not actually engaged or involved at all. I’m simply copying and pasting without fully understanding what is going on.

Are other engineers feeling like I do when it comes to using AI assisted coding?