Am I really missing out by not using AI for coding?
I'm a PhD student entering my final year, and I am doing a lot of computational stuff where I write my own code. Talking with others in my cohort, they are surprised to hear how the limit of my use of AI is pretty much "am I missing a keyword for this topic I want to look into?".
They were telling me how they pretty much use AI for all their coding now (and paying a crazy price as well). That they give it access to their whole computer and that it could probably do a month's worth of my coding in 10 minutes for me.
But the idea just feels so weird. I like writing my code, my modules and functions, commenting it, and specializing it to what I need. I'm confident because I wrote it, and if something is wrong, it's on me and I can look into it and learn more. They say I can tell it to just do all that as well? And that it can even make test cases to test itself?
But it's not just them, it seems like everybody I talk to, even the most AI hating professors, say the one thing they like it for is coding. Am I really going to be left behind if I don't get on this? Will it actually exponentially increase my productivity as I go into my final stretch and help me with switching to industry? I just cant shake all the feelings have around it, but I'm starting to feel really nervous for not using it.