Do you prefer to work alone or to work in a group? Be it in-office or remote. Guided works should not be included as it involves at least 2 people.
And also on an interesting note, how much AI has replaced your work buddy?
Well Mr boss man ;)
Ai hasn’t done shit for me (engineering) . Its wrong and it lies. Waste of time for most things.
I enjoy working in groups as long as there isnt that one jock asshole trying to run it because he has a loud male voice and can talk over people. Fuck them.
With normal, smart people, I enjoy group work.
Remote and alone. Fuck AI. I’m capable of working on large projects by myself, and if I’m in charge of dev and QA I can hold my work to my own high standards.
ive gotten that opportunity before. bonus for no boss breathing over my shoulder.
i can manage my own work and deliver everything that’s expected of me with quality when people just let me do the damn work in peace, like i’m a fucking grown up.
Generally I prefer to work alone and in-office, with the option to socialize and collaborate if it’s desired. The answer is heavily dependent on the type of work involved and the ability of the group to cooperate and complete their respective portions correctly and on time. I seldom use AI at work or personally and only for results that I can quickly verify for accuracy on my own.
Depends on the project. Manual labor? Group 100% of the time. Intellectual labor? Alone the vast majority of the time.
I don’t use AI if I can help it.
Remote, because my commute would be 140 miles round-trip again. Otherwise I mostly enjoy working in an office with people and I don’t mind going in every few months or so.
Remote is also nice because it actually makes it easier to collaborate with other developers when we can both be at our own keyboards and share screens.
I work well alone, but I spend a lot in time in calls, either work meetings or collaborating on code. I do enjoy the social aspect of that as well.
I use AI pretty much every day, but mostly as a search engine/SO replacement. I rarely let it write my code for me, since I’ve had overall poor results with that. Besides, I have to verify the code anyway. I do use it for simple refactoring or code generation like “create a c# class mapped to this table with entity framework”.
Mix of both. My job requires a lot of collaboration on some things, and others require deep dives into really dry texts that I prefer to do solo.
I prefer remote work. I’m on video calls with people all over the world most days so there’s no reason to be in any specific location. Home allows for no commute time, privacy, better lunch, so many reasons.
No AI replacement for tasks so far. The company I work for has an internal client that is supposed to answer queries based on all those dry texts mentioned above. But when I tested I found 16/20 attempts came back with inaccurate information on initial query and I would say roughly one third of those would not be reasonably caught by someone not very familiar with the texts like I am.
I think there are some opportunities for AI, more along the lines of automating standard workflows, but I have no time to build them because they’ve already fired 3/4 of my team in advance of “expected efficiencies thanks to AI”. I’m also not an IT / Digital Tools person. Nothing about my job is related to building AI tools and they haven’t provided us with skills-appropriate tools. So my team is just prioritizing and saying “no” to the bottom half of the list we no longer have capacity to support. I feel increasingly insecure in my job every time we say “no” but I also won’t push my team to work an obscene number of hours per week.
