An Honest Review of AI Programming

The author acknowledges that AI language models like Claude can be useful for work tasks—particularly for parsing queries and generating responses—but strongly cautions against using them to write code, emphasizing they are probabilistic text-processing tools rather than truly intelligent systems. While AI adoption is increasingly mandated by management despite engineers' skepticism, the author finds practical value in these tools for tasks like information retrieval, though they remain skeptical of the marketing hype surrounding "artificial intelligence."