Hi, I want to understand how you guys learn new things in the age of AI? I am a software engineer relatively new to the industry ~5 YOE. I am trying to learn new things in my job but since we use so much AI for programming and stuff, I feel that I might not be learning as much as I would have if AI did not exist.
I cannot stop using AI since it does make few things easier, and also my company keeps watch if someone is not using enough tokens. On other hand I also dont want to fall behind on my task deadlines by doing things old school way.
Is there any way to get better at workplace in this situation? I just want to get really, really good in my domain.
On the token front. A few of my friends have protestes by tokenmaxxxing. They burnt through so many tokens in the first week that management cancelled that quick.
I’m learning the same way that’s always worked for me. Identifying my biggest weakness and tackling it. For me that’s the fact that I don’t architect from the start. So I’ve started revisiting UML diagrams and various software architecture methodologies from various textbooks. I talk to other software engineers about their methods. And I try to implement a specific change (actually writing any sort of a plan now instead of writing the first function and sorting as I go)