A new Coddy Developer Survey found that four in five developers, 80%, say their use of AI has felt more like a dependence than an advantage.

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[–] 35 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

The only utility I've had with it is as a slightly more fancy document search. "Give me the syntax for [one line of code I want but can't remember]" or "Give me the syntax to do a c# style .select() call in [language I am less familiar with]"

And then I look at the docs and actually put the effort into understanding how the fuck things work.

Using it for anything more than that is a mistake. You still need to understand the context of what it is you're doing, you still need to think.

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

    You’ve never tried just giving it the task you did to see how it did?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I hate doing a lot of code review all at once, and AI vomits a lot of code. Hopefully the mistake is obviously big and up front, but all too often the mistake dwells in the details that I would likely be too tired to notice after a lot of plausible code.

    With human code to review at least the volume is generally workable and when it's wrong, it tends to be more obviously wrong. A human that takes care of very detailed facets with care inspires trust in their thoroughness, but codegen looks that way without the thorough consideration.

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