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AI “feels” more efficient for programming since it spits out code in a jiffy, but once I am done with a session of coding I really have to wonder whether it wou
by voiceblue 3y ago
AI “feels” more efficient for programming since it spits out code in a jiffy, but once I am done with a session of coding I really have to wonder whether it wouldn’t have just been faster to look up APIs and online discussions rather than repeatedly trying to fix what the LLM was doing or attempting to force it down a given path if you know roughly what you want. (Plus half the time it’s not clear why a method it wants to use isn’t there - not imported, or doesn’t exist and never existed, or defined elsewhere in whatever context used to be around this in training?)
It’s almost like using StackOverflow but a toddler is in charge of inputting your queries and only tells you a fraction of what he finds.
- red-iron-pine 3y agothis was kind of my experience as well, esp. when dealing with stuff I don't know super well. for example not super up on node.js but know enough to get done what I need to get done. got GPT to throw out some ideas re: linked lists with an approach I'd never seen before. so then the question was... is it smarter than me, and knows the answer better than I do? or is it dumber? I spent more time figuring that out -- it was dumber -- than if I'd just slapped in the node and mongo code myself. though I'll say it was a good learning experience, but not something really sustainable for full-time coding.