An Honest Review of AI Programming: Useful for Search, Useless for Code

After being given a Claude subscription and told to 'tokenmaxxing,' a game developer tried AI tools with skepticism. Over three months, they found LLMs surprisingly useful for searching internal company knowledge bases and summarizing information, but warns against using them to write code. The article highlights the risk of hallucinations, the importance of checking primary sources, and the tendency of AI to generate plausible-sounding but incorrect answers, especially for niche technical questions.