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Yeah, Copilot is meh. Aider-chat for things with GPT-4 earlier this year was a huge step up. But recently using Claude Sonnet + Haiku through OpenRouter also w
by kbaker 2y ago
Yeah, Copilot is meh. Aider-chat for things with GPT-4 earlier this year was a huge step up.
But recently using Claude Sonnet + Haiku through OpenRouter also with aider, and it is like a new dimension of programming.
Working on new projects in Rust and a separate SPA frontend, it just ... implements whatever you ask like magic. Gets it about 90-95% right at the first prompt. Since I am pretty new to Rust, there are a lot of idiomatic things to learn, and lots of std convenience functions I don't yet know about, but the AI does. Figuring out the best prompt and context for it to be effective is now the biggest task.
It will be crazy to see where things go over the next few years... do all junior programmers just disappear? Do all programmers become prompt engineers first?
- risyachka 2y agoThats the point. The less experienced you are the more gains you see, and vice versa. The issue in the first case is that you have no idea if it tells you good stuff or garbage. Also in simple projects it shines, when the project is more complex - it becomes mostly useless.
- mewpmewp2 2y agoIsn't that the opposite? The more experienced you are the higher the gains since you are able to see what it outputs and immediately tell if it is what you expected. You also know how to put on the best input for it to auto complete rest of it while you are already planning next steps in your head. I feel like a superhuman with it, honestly.
- valval 2y agoI think everything you said was wrong. Cursor is amazing now with the large context windows it’s capable of handling with Claude, especiallly at the hands of an expert programmer. A junior writing simple code is the exact recipe for disaster when it comes to these tools.