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Ask HN: How do you keep up with advances in AI-assisted programming techniques?
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#12By and large, just ignore them? Life's a lot easier when you don't fancy yourself a 10x programmer, accept mediocrity, and just absorb best practices by osmosis a few years after they're developed by the bigshots. This reminds me a lot of early Javascript: a thousand small companies each promising a 10% improvement to your workflow. Wait a couple years and it'll be three companies each offering 150% boosts instead, w…
My 2¢ having tried several "AI pair programmer" solutions on a recent project: Don't wait.
It's not anything like committing to a new tool or framework. There's not going to be a "winner". Delaying a personal understanding of how AI-assisted development is going to change software engineering will just hurt folks who aren't in the twilight of their careers.
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#13The same way I've successfully kept up on tech progress for 3+ decades now: By sitting back, doing what I know, and letting everyone else burn their energy on "keeping up". Then, when the hype has died down and I see what really has worked and stuck with people, I go learn it.
Great as an employee approach. Not as good as a founder approach.
Founder in what? Figure out what your core competency is and keep up to date on that. For everything else, stick with the tried and true.
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#14Keep up? I just ask chat gpt stuff and use copilot autocomplete. Just doing that has been a huge help and I’m not sure how much more I need at this time!
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#15visual studio new snippet experience was auto-rolled out. first a performance issue, now merely "mostly useless"
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#16I mostly don't. I turn them off if they are imposed upon me and carry on without the distractions.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great as an employee approach. Not as good as a founder approach.
You don’t need to chase the shiny to be a successful founder of a successful company. https://boringtechnology.club
Yeah. I subscribe to the theory of conservation-of-cool. You get to either build something cool with something boring, or something boring with something cool.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep up with advances in AI-assisted programming techniques?
#18By and large, just ignore them? Life's a lot easier when you don't fancy yourself a 10x programmer, accept mediocrity, and just absorb best practices by osmosis a few years after they're developed by the bigshots. This reminds me a lot of early Javascript: a thousand small companies each promising a 10% improvement to your workflow. Wait a couple years and it'll be three companies each offering 150% boosts instead, w…
I don't get that take, wouldn't most people use a tool if it made you even 5% or 10% more efficient at your job after a little bit of research? Sure digging for the tool and task use case takes time but it'll more than pay back itself
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#19Don't get the hypemongers rope you into thinking you're missing out. FOMO is above all a sales tactic.
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#20Simply Hackernews makes you better informed than about 80% of other engineers. Follow and read popular documents from a few professors, entrepreneurs, and communities on Twitter/Reddit/Quora to get to about 95%. Hunt for specific information to get to around 98%. Build something new and useful to get to 99%.