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To AI or not to AI, that is the question!

Knowing when and when NOT to use AI is vital for all pro coders

Greg L. Turnquist
8 min readJan 17, 2025

It’s no question that AI has emerged rapidly and swept not just the tech industry, but many other industries by storm!

Before we go any further, I understand that you may disagree with the term “AI”. These tools have no real “intelligence” whatsoever. You are probably right. But it doesn’t matter. This article focuses on the utility of these tools, not their metaphyiscal implications.

Part of the evidence that AI tools are “it” is the fact that every third ad I see on YouTube is for someone’s course on how you can making five-figures of passive income today. You and I both know THAT’s not going to happen.

So what IS AI good for? And what should we NOT be using it for?

For starters, since it’s probably at least ONE of the questions in the back of your mind, let me answer the following question: Greg, did you use AI to write this articles?

This article (nor none of my others) was NOT written using any AI tools.

I actually took a stand in my latest books against using AI to write any bit of prose. I even stated it outright, up front, for everyone to see, in the copyright page…

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Greg L. Turnquist
Greg L. Turnquist

Written by Greg L. Turnquist

Sr. Staff Technical Content Engineer at CockroachDB • YouTube Content Creator at https://youtube.com/@ProCoderIO • Best-Selling Author • Coffee Lover

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