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I feel like everyone praising AI is a webdev with extremely predictable problems that are almost entirely boilerplate. I've tried throwing LLMs at every part o
by 3836293648 1y ago
I feel like everyone praising AI is a webdev with extremely predictable problems that are almost entirely boilerplate.
I've tried throwing LLMs at every part of the work I do and it's been entirely useless at everything beyond explaining new libraries or being a search engine. Any time it tries to write any code at all it's been entirely useless.
But then I see so many praising all it can do and how much work they get done with their agents and I'm just left confused.
- typpilol 1y agoCan I ask what kind of work area you're in?
- creshal 1y agoYeah, the more boilerplate your code needs, the better AI works, and the more it saves you time by wasting less on boilerplate. AI tooling my experience: - React/similar webdev where I "need" 1000 lines of boilerplate to do what jquery did in half a line 10 years ago: Perfect - AbstractEnterpriseJavaFactorySingletonFactoryClassBuilder: Very helpful - Powershell monstrosities where I "need" 1000 lines of Verb-Nouning to do what bash does in three lines: If you feed it a template that makes it stop hallucinating nonexisting Verb-Nouners, perfect - Abstract algorithmic problems in any language: Eh, okay - All the `foo,err=…;if err…` boilerplate in Golang: Decent - Actually writing well-optimized business logic in any of those contexts: Forget about it Since I spend 95% of my time writing tight business logic, it's mostly useless.