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?
Group work is really nice when you’re working with intelligent, competent and reliable people. I have worked in amazing groups before and sometimes, I really miss it.
But I absolutely hate when I am forced to work on a project with unmotivated colleagues that do their bare minimum and use ChatGPT for everything. In my last job I was often fixing or doing their work, increasing my own workload.
At the moment, I am working alone and remote. I’m getting loads of shit done and I can finally breathe. Sometimes I wish I had at least one competent colleague again, though. But times are tough and good employees cost money…
There’s a saying:
If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.
I also have an amendment to that which is:
If you want to go neither fast, nor far, go with a toddler.
Quite the conundrum. I work better alone, but I want to go far.
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. and usually in half the time.
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.
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.
If it involves much creative vision, I prefer working alone. If it’s more grunt work, I’m happy to work in a group and at least get some time to socialize with colleagues out of it.
AI is just another tool in the box, never a substitute for an actual person.
If it’s academic work and graded, alone; if it’s “work work” I’d rather do it with others cause I’m a yapper. 😅
And “AI” can’t really help with anything I do, really, and the things it could do for me I can just as easily do by myself (writing emails, for instance).
Alone. 0%.
Alone
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”.
