4 ms·
I thought this would be another AI hate article, but it made some great points. One thing that AI has helped me with is finding pesky bugs. I mainly work on nu
by megaloblasto 1y ago
I thought this would be another AI hate article, but it made some great points.
One thing that AI has helped me with is finding pesky bugs. I mainly work on numerical simulations. At one point I was stuck for almost a week trying to figure out why my simulation was acting so strange. Finally I pulled up chatgpt, put some of my files into the context and wrote a prompt explaining the strange behavior and what I thought might be happening. In a few seconds it figured out that I had improperly scaled one of my equations. It came down to a couple missing parentheses, and once I fixed it the simulation ran perfectly.
This has happened a few times where AI was easily able to see something I was overlooking. Am I a 10x developer now that I use AI? No... but when used well, AI can have a hugely positive impact on what I am able to get done.
- mentos 1y agoYep same experience here saved me an infinite amount of time so to me that puts me somewhere between 10x and infinity ha
- wwweston 1y agoThis is my experience. Code generation is OK if uneven, but debugging can be a big boost. It’s a rubber duck that’s pretty educated and talks back.
- Gud 1y agoIndeed. As a (mostly) hobbyist programmer LLMs have been a godsend for those late night coding sessions when the brain fog is thick.