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It also made good engineering easier. AI is an amplifier of existing behavior.

by sshine 7mo ago

tinmandespot 7mo ago
“ AI is an amplifier of existing behavior” Apropos. I’m stealing that line.
qsera 7mo ago
Internet enabled instant to access to all human knowledge as well as instant chit-chat across the globe. Guess what humanity choose to drown itself in? So combine both facts here in context, with human nature, and you ll see where this will go.
genghisjahn 7mo ago
I love that I don’t have to look thru SO looking for a problem that’s kind of like the one I’m having. I have a problem solved based on my exact code taking my entire code base into account. And if I want a biting sarcastic review of my many faults as a software developer, I can ask for that too.
- sshine 7mo ago
  I have, in the last month, resorted to searching StackOverflow for something that works when Claude perpetually got it wrong three times in a row. It felt nostalgic that the answer was there in plain sight, and it just kept trying other things. So searching StackOverflow isn't quite dead yet.
  - genghisjahn 7mo ago
    Of course I still have times when Claude fumbles the fix. But the number of times it gets it exactly right far outnumber the times it can't get right. Compare that to the number of SO issues I've had to go through to get near a solution is night and day. I'm in no way saying you should work the way I do or that Claude would solve all your problems if you only just believe. I am saying it's been super helpful at squashing bugs for me in my circumstances with my code bases.
staticassertion 7mo ago
I think it's easier for good engineers to be good, perhaps. For example, I think property testing is "good" engineering. But I suspect that if you took a survey of developers the vast majority would not actually know what property testing is. So is AI really of any use then for those devs?
keeda 7mo ago
Yep, and recent reports from the likes of DORA and DX validate this with data: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-the-2025-dora-report https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/a...
maplethorpe 7mo ago
I think it depends on your process. Problems that require creative solutions are often solved through the act of doing. For me, it's the act of writing code itself that ignites the pathways and neural connections that I've built up in my brain over the years. Using AI circumvents that process, and those brain circuits go unused.

It also made good engineering easier. AI is an amplifier of existing behavior.

by sshine 7mo ago

It also made good engineering easier. AI is an amplifier of existing behavior.

tinmandespot 7mo ago

“ AI is an amplifier of existing behavior” Apropos. I’m stealing that line.

qsera 7mo ago

Internet enabled instant to access to all human knowledge as well as instant chit-chat across the globe. Guess what humanity choose to drown itself in? So combine both facts here in context, with human nature, and you ll see where this will go.

genghisjahn 7mo ago

I love that I don’t have to look thru SO looking for a problem that’s kind of like the one I’m having. I have a problem solved based on my exact code taking my entire code base into account. And if I want a biting sarcastic review of my many faults as a software developer, I can ask for that too.

sshine 7mo ago
I have, in the last month, resorted to searching StackOverflow for something that works when Claude perpetually got it wrong three times in a row. It felt nostalgic that the answer was there in plain sight, and it just kept trying other things. So searching StackOverflow isn't quite dead yet.
- genghisjahn 7mo ago
  Of course I still have times when Claude fumbles the fix. But the number of times it gets it exactly right far outnumber the times it can't get right. Compare that to the number of SO issues I've had to go through to get near a solution is night and day. I'm in no way saying you should work the way I do or that Claude would solve all your problems if you only just believe. I am saying it's been super helpful at squashing bugs for me in my circumstances with my code bases.

staticassertion 7mo ago

I think it's easier for good engineers to be good, perhaps. For example, I think property testing is "good" engineering. But I suspect that if you took a survey of developers the vast majority would not actually know what property testing is. So is AI really of any use then for those devs?

keeda 7mo ago

Yep, and recent reports from the likes of DORA and DX validate this with data: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/announcing-the-2025-dora-report https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/a...

maplethorpe 7mo ago

I think it depends on your process. Problems that require creative solutions are often solved through the act of doing. For me, it's the act of writing code itself that ignites the pathways and neural connections that I've built up in my brain over the years. Using AI circumvents that process, and those brain circuits go unused.