I have been using AI for coding since around maybe november of 2024, until present! Most of my experience is from a lot of NFOServer related activities. I was referred to here probably 18 years ago, most likely by a older Day of Defeat:Source Realism unit member! :
Its really kind of crazy, what Ai has become in such a short amount of time...I currently use Codex on a pretty regular basis, even for doing things like Industrial automation. Speaking of which, is also becoming a kind of weird area....I struggled to come up with a title for this post, because I both have questions for some of the older hats here, as well as me just wanting to reflect with you guys on where we are in 2026, primarily regarding ai.
Two years ago, it struggled to piece 2 separate html files together, and was primarily good at just teaching me new things honestly. I had actually paid a guy from codementors, to help me make this industrial Work order app (cmms), and thats how i learned about react and ai's ability to code...
things are just moving so fast, where posts even 6 months ago, don't even pertain to how ai is currently. And to those that have never used something like codex, i think don't really understand how insane ai actually is. And to those that have been effected negatively because of it, I am both sorry for that, but I also believe there is some potential benefits really.
It's difficult to condense my thoughts/feelings into one post. I am just at this weird place with this work project, where I've made some things that would have costed my company literally millions of dollars, it works, and i think that people have a hard time adapting to where we are at the very least.
I like to say, it's like AI is the silent bomb that went off. From that perspective, I am left wondering just how much is being effected, how long has AI actually been shifting things (especially its earlier uses with Facebook content autonomization) and so on.
My questions for the older hats is; what's some things that currently needs to really be watched out for, when it comes to using ai? I have been using it for awhile, but i also have a fair amount of experience through the years...sure i haven't gone to college for stuff, but the decades of projects with NFO has really set me apart. I am in industrial maintenance/programming, and I feel maybe ai has empowered a lot of people that are very not experienced, and also giving ai a bad name in that sense
Sorry for the long rant; some of you guys have been in my life, longer than most at this point haha. happy holidays for those in the states!