Three takes on AI, from inside the dev team
We interviewed three developers from our team in La Paz about AI in their daily work. Three voices, one conclusion: AI speeds things up, brings order and opens up perspectives — but it doesn't replace the developer's critical eye.
To get a close look at how they live with artificial intelligence in their daily work, we interviewed three members of our development team in La Paz, Bolivia. The question was simple: how do they feel, regarding AI, as developers and software engineers?
Huascar Mamani
API Manager · API culteur
For Huascar Mamani, AI is "a valuable support for basic tasks that don't require complex reasoning, like identifying languages or frameworks, applying design patterns or solving common errors."
However, he stresses that "for more complex problems the results usually aren't precise enough, which makes the intervention of a software development expert necessary." Even so, he points out that AI "transforms the way we plan, organise and carry out processes, allowing tasks to be solved more quickly and efficiently," though always with a warning: "Completely delegating the work to AI without supervision would be a mistake; continuous checks and reviews are needed."
Rohely Lafuente
System Engineer · Sorcier d'Écran
Rohely Lafuente agrees that AI's greatest value is the speed and clarity it brings: "It has become an important help for developing applications. It always suggests interesting things, and that's on us: to validate the answers, but it always speeds up development." For him, this translates into cleaner, more maintainable code: "It lets us have code that's easier to understand for when we have to fix something, or when another developer has to improve what we're building."
He also admits that, as a developer, AI makes him feel "calmer" and that it even helps them "stay up to date at all times."
Ariel Chacón
Problem Resolution Manager · Pilote des Réponses Magnifiques
For his part, Ariel Chacón emphasises AI's ability to reduce the learning curve when facing new technologies: "It helps us a lot to make that learning curve easier, more practical for us."
In his daily work, he sees it as "a work tool that helps us with the different technologies we use in the project." He acknowledges that it "can easily replace a programmer on basic tasks," though for now he sees it more as an accelerator and a complement: "It lets us speed up our work, understand better and gain new perspectives on software development." As an example, he mentions that AI "helps conceptually with task automation and automatic information processing."
Three voices, one shared conclusion: AI doesn't replace the developer's experience or critical eye, but it is an increasingly present companion that brings speed, order and new perspectives to the creation of software.