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I let it write boilerplate, or other low impact stuff like html/css. It worked nicely converting Svelte components from Svelte 4 to 5 for example. And AI autoco
by b_e_n_t_o_n 1y ago
I let it write boilerplate, or other low impact stuff like html/css. It worked nicely converting Svelte components from Svelte 4 to 5 for example. And AI autocomplete has been a genuine productivity win although not without the occasional subtle bug. But I can't imagine trusting it for an entire codebase. If you're letting the AI write your code you're not thinking about it deeply enough to critique it imo. Which is fine for CSS or whatever but not most code.
It's such a great tool for learning, double checking your work, figuring out syntax or console commands, writing one-off bash scripts etc.
- shortrounddev2 1y agoI stopped using copilot because it kept writing really bad c++. It's great at python and Javascript. This was a year or so ago so maybe its better now
- b_e_n_t_o_n 1y agoI used it to learn C++ but that was for basic stuff. Even I could tell when it started to go off the rails. I wonder if some of the disconnect between the AI coding fans and skeptics is just the language they're writing.
- leptons 1y agoNope, I write Javascript every day and none of the AI coding assistants is really that good. It churns out more crap than gold.