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Yeah that's my feeling about it. I don't code much these days so have not used AI very much in that respect, so for me it's basically a superpowered search agen
by SoftTalker 2mo ago
Yeah that's my feeling about it. I don't code much these days so have not used AI very much in that respect, so for me it's basically a superpowered search agent that can formulate relevant answers based on the details I provide, without the "why do you want to do that" or "tell us what you're really trying to achieve" that you'd so often get on tech forums.
But if I had to use AI for coding I don't think that it would take me very much time at all to get into the swing of it. I wrote code by hand for decades, so I know how to judge whether it's producing something that looks reasonable.
- asdfman123 2mo agoYep, that's been my experience of it. Fun note though, my work these days often involves telling AI to solve a problem and me asking it why it wants to do something a certain way. It often has to patiently explain something like why the bazel rules need to be modified to accomplish my ends goals, and has to reiterate key concepts about a part of the codebase I'm unfamiliar with these days. Really the only reason I'm there is to make sure it makes the changes as clean and efficient as possible, without unnecessary complexity that's hard to read.
- joquarky 2mo ago> telling AI to solve a problem and me asking it why it wants to do something a certain way Just keep your guard up for when the answer to "why" may be just a post-hoc "rationalization".