AI first time

Doing the work at core of what I planned to do this week took half day, lots of fun. Doing the scaffolding around the code so that it could be deployed and used, four times that. Not so fun. Not hard, just … a long of moving parts?

Anyway, it works as intended and I’m pretty happy.

Almost 6pm I realised I needed something and, following a recent conversation with a colleague, gave the day job’s AI helper a try. Asked it to help me with a for loop on Terraform. It did.

I mean, I was going to ask that colleague for help or would’ve spent a few more minutes bashing my head or reading the documentation. Still, I’m no longer “100% AI free” anymore! The shock, the horror!

I’m still not sold on the great benefits of it to the society. No, it (probably? hopefully?) won’t steal our jobs or collapse our wages, but it will lead to an increase in complexity as more people flock into “AI write this complex thing for me”, and the energy requirements for it to hallucinate are not negligible.

In today’s very limited use case, it worked. For good, or for worse, I can’t say.