--- title: Where Are the Benefits of Programming with AI? | daily.dev description: A developer with eight years of experience reflects on one year of mandatory AI-assisted coding at their company. Despite acknowledging speed gains, they feel... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/where-are-the-benefits-of-programming-with-ai--i0rd0izfd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Where Are the Benefits of Programming with AI? | daily.dev og:description: A developer with eight years of experience reflects on one year of mandatory AI-assisted coding at their company. Despite acknowledging speed gains, they feel... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/where-are-the-benefits-of-programming-with-ai--i0rd0izfd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/I0rD0IZfD.png og:image:alt: Where Are the Benefits of Programming with AI? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Where Are the Benefits of Programming with AI? **[RUBYLAND](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer with eight years of experience reflects on one year of mandatory AI-assisted coding at their company. Despite acknowledging speed gains, they feel disconnected from the craft and fulfillment of writing code independently. Salary hasn't increased, working hours haven't decreased, and the productivity gains seem to benefit employers and AI vendors rather than the developers doing the work. The author frames the problem not as the tools themselves but as the economic and managerial pressures that weaponize them. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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