Seems mostly true. There’s also a group of people flailing around trying to fit it in their workflows because all the top tech companies are saying it’s the next big thing.
I notice lots of LARPing too with adding the word “AI” to everything hoping that will unlock some new avenues.
> The big struggle is to even start using AI coding assistant tools. Lots of teams just don’t use them at all, or use them in very limited ways. People leading these teams know they are going to lose if they don’t change but are struggling to get their orgs to let them.
It seems to me 25-50% of developers are using some form of AI-assisted coding. Did you notice that the beaureacracy of their companies was not allowing their developers to use coding assistants?
I notice lots of LARPing too with adding the word “AI” to everything hoping that will unlock some new avenues.
Absolutely. There’s a lot of attempts to build “AI” features, but a lot of these are garbage because no one bothered to think how it would be useful to customers. Seeing a lot of things like custom chat bots that answer questions nobody had, automating tasks nobody cares about getting done, etc.
It seems to me 25-50% of developers are using some form of AI-assisted coding. Did you notice that the beaureacracy of their companies was not allowing their developers to use coding assistants?
Best I can tell the number of engineers using LLMs tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor is pretty small, maybe 20%, although this is anecdata and I don’t know what better research says. Lots are using Copilot because it had already been approved and paid for, but if you’ve tried to use Copilot’s LLM features you know they lag behind.
I’m sure plenty of people are finding sneaky ways to use LLMs, though. Easy to have a personal account and ask it your questions, even if you aren’t allowed to use agentic tools.
Seems mostly true. There’s also a group of people flailing around trying to fit it in their workflows because all the top tech companies are saying it’s the next big thing.
I notice lots of LARPing too with adding the word “AI” to everything hoping that will unlock some new avenues.
> The big struggle is to even start using AI coding assistant tools. Lots of teams just don’t use them at all, or use them in very limited ways. People leading these teams know they are going to lose if they don’t change but are struggling to get their orgs to let them.
It seems to me 25-50% of developers are using some form of AI-assisted coding. Did you notice that the beaureacracy of their companies was not allowing their developers to use coding assistants?
Absolutely. There’s a lot of attempts to build “AI” features, but a lot of these are garbage because no one bothered to think how it would be useful to customers. Seeing a lot of things like custom chat bots that answer questions nobody had, automating tasks nobody cares about getting done, etc.
Best I can tell the number of engineers using LLMs tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor is pretty small, maybe 20%, although this is anecdata and I don’t know what better research says. Lots are using Copilot because it had already been approved and paid for, but if you’ve tried to use Copilot’s LLM features you know they lag behind.
I’m sure plenty of people are finding sneaky ways to use LLMs, though. Easy to have a personal account and ask it your questions, even if you aren’t allowed to use agentic tools.