How I use AI as a software engineer

Once I started integrating AI tools into my day-to-day workflow, I noticed a pretty decent uptick in my overall productivity. It's not just coding, either! I use AI to troubleshoot complicated issues, or learn new languages and frameworks.

In this video, I show you all of the ways that I've started using AI in my daily life as a senior software engineer. I hope that it gives you some insight into how these tools can make you a more productive programmer and cut out some of the more monotonous tasks. More of a copilot, less of a crutch!

Personally I really don't think that AI will take over programming completely, but I do believe that programmers who don't embrace it could be left behind by those who do. What do you think?

- 0:00 Intro
- 0:30 Code Generation
- 3:16 Troubleshooting
- 5:42 Prototyping
- 8:20 Learning
- 10:04 Conclusions

[RRRRRRP]

Nice, straightforward video as usual 👍🏻 I'm really loving Claude, so much so that I am considering dropping my ChatGPT subscription. Not only is the quality of the responses much better for coding related tasks, but the new Artifacts feature is really neat.

I'm curious, what is the pricing like on the OpenAI playground, and what are the advantages (as you see them) over using the standard GPT interface? I think you can create an overall "prompt" for the responses in much the same way, although I've not really done that, although I probably should! lol

[mucyolouis]

thanks, andrew, this is very helpful for me

[rdvr]

Thanks Andrew. Question: it can get quite expensive paying for too many AI services. Which of the ones mentioned are you actually paying for and which are you using the free plan for?

[gamesandlofimucic]

I also use claude AI and the way I use it is if i encounter a problem or bug i don't understand, i'll copy paste the entire function, give it more details and have it analyze why it happens and then it will provide me a revised version of my code with the problem solved

[nexxai]

This is a great recap, but goddamn, what the hell is that font lmao