David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

That's fine.

I also use AI all day long.

In fact, I'm already at the point where if you took it away from me, I'd be like, oh my God, how do we even look things up on the internet anymore?

Is Stack Overflow still around?

Is Quorum still a thing?

How do I even find answers to some of these questions I have all day long?

I don't want to give up AI.

In fact, I'd say the way I like to use AI, I'm getting smarter every day because of AI.

Because I'm using AI to have it explain things to me, even stupid questions.

I would be a little embarrassed to even enter into Google.

AI is perfectly willing to give me the ELI 5 explanation of some Unix command I should have known already, but I don't.

I'm sorry.

Can you just explain it to me?

And now I know the thing.

So at the end of the day of me working with AI all day long, I'm a little bit smarter.

5%, sorry, not 5%, half a percent, maybe.

That compounds over time.

But what I've also seen when I worked on the Omiku project and I tried to let AI drive for me, I felt I was maybe half a percent dumber at the end of the day.

I like to think of it as a pair programmer for exactly that reason.

Pair programming came vogue in like the 2000s where you'd have two programmers in front of one machine and you'd push the keyboard between you.