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https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-software-engineering The actual study with the data, minus the "I was right all along" commentary

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I liked magic wormhole a lot but it was inconvenient to ask people to install something to receive a file, and I wished I could just give them the link, so I made the utility to do…

It's a combination of being bad at prompting and different expectations from the tool. You expect it to be one shot, and then rewrite things that don't match up to what you want. I…

I'll say "maybe-sometimes works" is a misunderstanding. It feels like that initially, but that's no different from any new tool you adopt. A jackhammer also "maybe-sometimes works"…

AI is indeed just hype in a lot of cases, but also has revolutionary value in a other cases. Trying it is the only way you'll be able to differentiate the latter from the former.

While true in a subset of problems, linters will also miss stupid mistakes because not everything is syntactical. AI for example can catch the fact that `phone.match(/\d{10}/)` mig…