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Re: Ask HN: How are senior SWEs using AI?

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Post by EpsilonHN » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 9:47 AM UTC

I find it really usefull for simple but time consuming task (mapping of fields for instance) or for precise questions.

I see some people using it to vide-code whole features which often lead to code that work on the surface but when you deep dive in what it actually does it's catastrophic

Re: Ask HN: How are senior SWEs using AI?

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Post by andyish » Wed, Oct 15, 2025, 1:01 PM UTC

Use it to get a primer in a new area If i'm debugging i'll feed it what i know and see what it gives me. If nothing else gives me some ideas to get started. Generate test data

I've tried it to generate html/css for an email and it kind of works but depsite asking it to doesn't work across all versions of outlook and gmail.

I'm overly cautious about what I paste in. Just like how you can find PII data in logs I think the amount of PII data that's being pasted into AIs will be crazy.

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