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OpenAI is reportedly going all-in as a for-profit company (mashable.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Out of curiosity, which AI tools specifically do you use and do you pay for them?

Just whatever is free, so no, I don't pay for them for two reasons:

  • my boss doesn't allow AI to have access to our codebase
  • I honestly don't find enough value to actually pay

So I'll just find something with a free tier or trial and generate a little bit of code or something. Or I'll use the AI feature in a search engine to help me get search terms for relevant documentation (i.e. list libraries that do X), and then I'll actually read the documentation. I have coworkers who use it for personal projects (not sure what they use), and that's also part of what I've listed above (i.e. the generating documentation part).

But I very rarely use AI, because I very rarely start projects from scratch. 99% of my work is updates to existing projects, so it's really not that useful.