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If AI is making you more productive, then I doubt you were very productive pre-AI
by bluefirebrand 11mo ago
If AI is making you more productive, then I doubt you were very productive pre-AI
- cyral 11mo agoThe denial/cope here is insane
- fireflash38 11mo agoMy experience with using AI is that it's a glorified stack overflow copy paster. It'll even glue a handful of SO answers together! But then you run into classic SO problems... Like the first solution doesn't work. Nor the second one. And the third one introduces a completely different coding style. The last one is implemented in pure sh/GNU utils. One thing it is absolutely amazing at: digesting things that have bad documentation, like openssl C api. Even then you still gotta be on the watch for hallucinations, and audit it very thoroughly.
- atleastoptimal 11mo agoI had a software engineering job before AI. I still do, but I can write much more code. I avoid AI in more mission-critical domains and areas where it is more important that I understand the details intimately, but a lot of coding is repetitive busywork, looking for "needles in haystacks", porting libraries, etc. which AI makes 10x easier.