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I hate AIs because I think overall they're bad for the environment, centralizes power, and worsen quality. That said I never really doubted that they can help
by myaccountonhn 1y ago
I hate AIs because I think overall they're bad for the environment, centralizes power, and worsen quality.
That said I never really doubted that they can help you get more done. I use it occasionally to refactor or generate some boilerplate. But very often though I need to rewrite most of the functionality, I find it more true the more code it generates.
The agentic stuff I've tried have been terrible. Yeah I personally haven't used the latest models, but I deal with teammates who use them and the frontend it generates looks bland and the shell scripts generated with them are very hard to debug but also just flat out broken.
- someoneiam 1y agoYou sound like me. I've found some good uses for them generating ansible files for example (the output is regularly wrong, even with the latest and greatest model, but easy enough to correct). But otherwise, there always seems to be a cutoff in the complexity of a project where the ROI of just having to have built everything myself, and thus being completely immersed in the codebase, seems like it would have been much greater then prompting something to frankensteinian life. But most of all, I love the act of programming and cannot imagine myself giving that over to an LLM. "Managing" an LLM is to me a soul crushing - maybe anti-intellectual, but definitely boring - task. And if that is what we as professionals will be required to do in the future, I'll just change profession.
- myaccountonhn 1y agoYeah I agree, it's also so sad to have a future where we're dependent on giant US-based companies for all our thinking.