Coworker swore by an AI code generator and I should have listened

My teammate Dave kept pushing this AI tool that writes SQL queries for you and I ignored him for 3 months. Last week I spent 6 hours debugging a join that the AI would have caught in 30 seconds. Has anyone else had a tool they brushed off that actually saved someone's bacon?

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milabaker15d ago

Gently pushing back here but SQL is actually one of the easier things for AI to get wrong too, it loves making up tables that don't exist. That said yeah I've been there with ignoring good advice and regretting it.

blake_martinez15d ago

Used to think these tools were just gimmicks for people who couldn't write code. But after a week of chasing a bug that turned out to be a simple column mismatch, I started testing the AI on some of my old queries. It spit out the exact same thing I wrote but caught the issue instantly. That changed my mind pretty fast. Not saying you should trust it blindly, but ignoring it completely is just leaving time on the table.