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Einstein said something like: "To punish my distain for authority, God made me an authority". I feel like to push my distain for dev managers, techbro Jesus has made me a dev manager, of AI agents.
I do wonder what will happen when real costs are billed. It might end up being a net positive since that will make you think more about what you prompt, and perhaps the results will be much better than lazily prompting and seeing what comes out (which seems to be a very typical case).
Managment uses it to make mock websites then doesn't listen when we point out flows, so nothing new there
Some in digital marketing are using it for data collection/anlysis, but it reaches wrong conclusions 50% of the time (their words) so they are slowly dropping it and using it for meneal tasks and simple automations
In design we had a trial period but has the same issue as coding: either it makes something a senior designer could have made in 2 minutes or it introduces errors that take a long time to fix, to then do it again the next prompt
we are a senior dev team, although relative small, and to me it seems like it only really works as a subsitute for junior devs... but the point of junior devs is to grow someone into a senior with the knowledge you need in the company so i don't really get the usecase overall
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The only part AI auto complete I found I really like is when I have a function call that takes like a dozen arguments, and the auto complete can just shove it all together for me. Such a nice little improvement.
Do you mean suggesting arguments to provide based on name/type context?
Haven't seen this mentioned yet, but the worst part for me is that a lot of management LOVES to use Claude to generate 50 page design documents, PRDs, etc., and send them to us to "please review as soon as you can". Nobody reads it, not even the people making it. I'm watching some employees just generate endless slide decks of nonsense and then waffle when asked any specific questions. If any of that is read, it is b…
I've found in my (admittedly limited) use of LLMs that they're great for writing code if I don't forsee a need to review it myself either, but if I'm going to be editing the code myself later I need to be the one writing it. Also LLMs are bad at design.
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> another teammate added a length check to an input field, and his request was merged near instantly, even though it had zero unit testing That sounds extremely reasonable though?
Code that does not take a pre-existent unit test from failing to passing is by definition broken.
The productivity comes from three main areas for me:
- Having the AI coding assistance write unit tests for my changes. This used to be by far my least favorite part of my job of writing software, mostly because instead of solving problems, it was the monotonous process of gathering mock data to generate specific pathways, trying to make sure I'm covering all the cases, and then debugging the tests. AI coding assistance allows me to just have to review the tests to make sure that they cover all the cases I can think of and that there aren't any overtly wrong assumptions
- Research. It has been extraordinarily helpful in giving me insight into how to design some larger systems when I have extremely specific requirements but don't necessarily have the complete experience to architect them myself - I know enough to understand if the system is going to correctly accomplish the requirements, but not to have necessarily come up with architecture as a whole
- Quick test scripts. It has been extremely useful for generating quick SQL data for testing things, along with quick one-off scripts to test things like external provider APIs
I develop prototypes using Claude Code. The dead boring stuff. "Implement JWT token verification and role checking in Spring Boot. Secure some endpoints with Oauth2, some with API key, some public." C# and Java are so old, whatever solutions you find are 5 years out of date. Having an agent implement and verify the foundation is the perfect fit. There's no design, just ever-chaning framework magic. I'd do the same "G…
Terrible idea if you ask me. I'd suggest checking the official docs next time around, or at the very least copying them into the context window.