Why Is Using AI In Your Work Bad?

Probably you use AI tools in your daily life to generate some images, to getting recipes, to learning foreign languages or just to discuss with AI very interesting topic.

One day you wanted to ask AI for a solution for your work. For example, you are trying to make a new website for yourself or for your client. You have a problem with your code or you have never created websites before and you decided to ask AI about basic knowledge.

Of course you can use AI for your work but you need to remember and understand some important things when you use AI tools. This article describes really important consequences for you and your life in the future.

I tried to collect the important information about AI, research, my observations and my practice work with AI.

Preface

This article is only my point of view. This article may seem controversial for most people and may not like it.

I don't forbid anyone to use AI.

I hope this article will help you understand more and will give more ideas and thoughts about AI technologies.

Thanks for your understanding.

Getting Started

ChatGPT (from Open AI) was released on November 30, 2022. At this moment people started to use AI tools in their life.

When ChatGPT was released a lot of people talked about this technology especially on YouTube.

At that moment many people thought that this tool can do everything! So ChatGPT was a crude version. I remember there were a lot of mistakes in responses. But in 2023-2024 years ChatGPT became better. Many interesting features have appeared: image generation, working with links and files, improved work with texts, subscription on ChatGPT+ and other things. Then large companies began to make own AI tools for their services. Microsoft (Copilot), Google (Gemini), Yandex (YandexGPT) and others.

Most people know about these tools:

• ChatGPT
• Murf
• Midjourney 
• Copilot
• Deepl translator 
• Gemini
• DALL·E 3

Nowadays a lot of companies integrate AI tools in their services. Began to appear titles on the websites, the most popular title is AI-POWERED. This title says that this website uses AI tools or just has AI technology.

Now, you can see plenty of AI tools on the common websites. For example: google docs, google mail, google search, bing, loom recorder and others. Most existing AI tools use Open AI technology. But some AI tools use their own technology.

If you asked somebody in 2021 about AI most would say - “What does that mean?” or “What are you talking about?”.

AI technology was before ChatGPT and other AI tools. The 1940s and 1950s were the time when artificial intelligence was born.

AI technology is used in video games, general-purpose CPUs, personal computers and more.

AI just got to the internet on the websites!

So AI technology was known by fewer people, usually its narrow specialists. And when AI got to the internet on websites people began to use this ability and now if I ask someone about AI, probably most people will say - “Yeah, I know, I use it, It’s cool!”.

Certainly, this event is so important, because with the emergence of AI tools in our browser, our life became different. Now a lot of people use AI services and do many things with the help of AI.

What Is AI Under The Hood?

AI based on an LLM (Large Language Model). An LLM, designed for text and language comprehension, is an AI model adept at performing various language-based tasks.

LLMs learn through identifying and replicating patterns in vast collections of text data – that's why they're termed large!

Source: inversopedia

This is an LLM workflow:

1. Input text
2. Tokenization
3. Neural processing
4. Prediction
5. Output

LLMs lack understanding of meaning, explainability, certainty, doubt, error tolerance, stable logic, criterion of truth, real memory, but they do have glitches!

LLM is a imitation of a profession, a fake worker; it's not a real worker as a human being.

This is not intelligence, but an information and cognitive mega-amplifier.

Key Factors Behind The Rise Of Artificial Intelligence

• Scale of application
• Cognitive power
• Speed
• Natural interface
• Scalable benefit
• Value even in the face of unreliability
• Automation of cognitive work

Trends, Forecasts, Future

Not long ago I read an interesting research from Stack Overflow about coding, the technologies and tools they use and want to learn, AI, and developer experience at work. But here we are only interested in this research about AI.

Most developers use AI tools and will be ready to use them in the next year.

Look at this:

The developers note benefits AI (top 3):

• Increase productivity (81%)
• Speed up learning (62.4%)
• Greater efficiency (58.5%)

AI in the development workflow (top 3):

• Writing code (82%)
• Search for answers (67.5%)
• Debugging and getting help (56.7%)

More categories you can find in their research. It’s so interesting because in these answers there are answers from professional developers. I hope these answers really belong to them. For me it is so strange why professional use AI tools so much.

The most popular reasons in their research are "Increase productivity" and "writing code". But, unfortunately, this is not true. Various studies on AI conducted in 2026 suggest the situation with AI is worse than it actually is.

AI PR findings are highest around logic and corrections issues (Source: CodeRabbit)

You can find a full report on their website (State of the AI vs. Human Code Generation).

So, it turns out that developers are writing code with AI. I hope these developers check answers from AI, because the quality AI answers are so bad. Need to check more, each time when you use AI. It is really important because I have encountered many errors in answers from AI when I tried AI tools. You should be careful and check everything you got from AI.

If you use AI when you are writing your code, please check, check twice. Of course, if you write code with AI, maybe your performance will be better because you can solve more tasks and therefore faster to complete deadlines and take a rest. But remember about the quality of your code.

I know that the main thing for some programmers it’s just complete their project and write to the client or boss and say that I've done. Especially for freelancers. Because many clients can’t check their code and just apply and pay for their work.

The same situation is observed in the case of part-time and full-time development. I know these cases personally. So I want to say that this situation is really bad. But we talk about it in the next part of my article.

Another interesting fact is developers agree to use AI tools in the next year even more.

The Consequences That Await Us

Now, I’d like to talk about consequences using AI tools. We are talking about AI tools when we use them for work. I found some studies about AI but these studies still don’t open global problems, only some of the little things. I think right now we have a little information about consequences using AI tools, but already now we can assume some negative consequences.

Unfortunately, my expectations were met. (UPD:2026)

When we use most AI tools we get used and we hope that AI will help us with any problems. Unfortunately if we use AI tools each time and so often we start deteriorating.

Maybe you can ask me, why are we deteriorating? And my answer is very simple.

When we use AI tools we are thinking less about a problem or a task and we are thinking only about how to write a prompt so AI can understand us right and get a good answer. People often don't want to understand and process information; instead, they want a quick answer, copy and paste it.

Also, I know the real situations of programmers who use AI tools, especially beginners. They are just copying answers from AI and pasting it into their code, not even thinking about what the code is that they pasted. This is the biggest mistake!

At this moment, people who use AI don’t study, don’t remember, don't keep it in their minds, just copy and paste or simply ask, read and close. Instead of documentation. AI is used by developers, but its answers are often based on outdated information due to knowledge constraints. When you try to explain this moment, AI will probably try to give you fictional answers.

As well, AI can use information from sources which have't credibility.

Let’s give a situation when we are trying to solve a problem. When you use documentation as a solution to your problem, it’s a good idea, because when you read the documentation or try to find solutions on special websites, it gives you more knowledge, confidence, and an understanding of your problem. Of course this approach may be long, but this process is better. Don’t rush! Enjoy the process, not the result.

When we use someone's answer, we can check this answer right now because we can probably see ratings, comments, etc. about this answer; this increases the confidence.

Sometimes we can't find the answer we need and even in this situation we don't need to give up. Giving up and starting to ask AI is the simple decision.

In each situation we must have common sense. It’s so significant. For us as people the main thing is development. We should not rely on those who will help us every single moment, especially AI. Better ask your friends, colleagues or ask your answer on special websites. If you have more time you should solve your problem yourself. Of course, this process takes more time.

If you want to proceed with AI, check a short list of consequences:

• Lack professional development;
• Memory degrades;
• Mistakes that you don't know about;
• The educational process is slowing down;
• Hope is only in AI (is addictive);
• Thought processes are reduced;
• Development of large data centers and energy consumption.

Of course it’s only my point of view, nothing more.

How To Use AI Tools?

We definitely can use AI tools for some things and so we need to use it right. Try not to use AI answers in your professional work. Or better yet, don't use it at all. I think we can use AI tools for general and simple things. 

For example: recipes, generating images, writing texts, ideas for business, learning foreign languages, voice-over by an announcer, etc. Even if you use AI for general things, use less AI and try to do something yourself. It's better to avoid AI.

Conclusions

Finally let’s talk about the results. Remember that AI often has unreliable information that should always be verified.

If you decide to use AI tools in your work, be sure to double-check every point in the AI's answers and check the same information online, for example, using Google. AI still is not as good for many tasks.

Of course, you must remember that excessive use of AI leads to a decrease in human mental and intellectual abilities. I think that as the years go by, more and more research will emerge about AI, and over time, people will realize how harmful AI is to their professional lives and their lives in general.

By the way, I created some images for those who are against AI in their professional work. I want to note this applies only to AI tools which are used for professional work because using AI in our professional work is such a big problem among others.

You can download images for free from my Google Drive

Remember, we don't need to take the work from others. I say it again, if you use AI tools, please, use them less. If you find a specialist for your work or for a service please ask people for help.

You don't have to trust AI 100%. We must use our minds.Dmitrii Balakirev - Senior React / Next.js Engineer, Team Lead | Web, Mobile Products