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AI coding assistants might not save wall-time, but they do save effort, in the same way that pressing the 'up' arrow ten times in a shell might let you avoid typing 'ls' (lemmy.ca)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

If you're technical, spec kit helps with this a lot.

You define the spec, and declare everything important about how it needs to work.

Then let the ai loose on developing the code. Then I have another ai check for accuracy to the spec, and have it walk me through the code at a high level.

I understand it about as well as I do most projects where there is a team working on something.

Works great if you are already a competent coder. If I was new to coding though, I don't think I would be learning a ton

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I feel like most of the time saved is by skipping the part where you learn stuff. Like, the AI fills out how you do a left join with this ORM library. Cool. Now I don't know how to do that.

    You know how a lot of managers are annoying and don't know anything about how shit works? That's down the road using LLMs like this.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I don't disagree. That's why I feel for new developers. I've been doing this for 25 years, and I have some stuff still to learn, but not all that much on a vibe coded saas app.

    If I had to learn like this when I was new though, I probably would have never learned anything

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