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Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
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Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#552It's good. I use codex right now. I purposefully slow down to at least read/ review the code it generates , unless I'm creating something intentionally throw away. It helps me most dealing with languages and frameworks I'm not familiar with. I also use chatgpt as a rubber duck and although it's often too verbose I enjoy it. There are still many times where it will not provide the key insight to a problem but once you supply it it instantly agrees like it was always obvious. On the other hand it has helped me grok many subjects especially academic
Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#553Haven'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 been tasked with code reviews of Claude chat bot written code (not Claude code that has RAG and can browse the file system). It always lacks any understanding of our problem area, 75% of the time it only works for a specific scenario (the prompted case), and almost 100% of the time, when I comment about this, I'm told to take it over and make it work... and to use Claude.
I've kind of decided this is my last job, so when this company folds or fires me, I'm just going to retire to my cabin in the rural Louisiana woods, and my wife will be the breadwinner. I only have a few 10s of thousands left to make that home "free" (pay off the mortgage, add solar and batteries, plant more than just potatoes and tomatoes).
Though, post retirement, I will support my wife's therapy practice, and I have a goal of silly businesses that are just fun to do (until they arent), like my potato/tomato hybrid (actually just a graft) so you can make fries and ketchup from the same plant!
Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#554Haven'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 been tasked with code reviews of Claude chat bot written code (not Claude code that has RAG and can browse the file system). It always lacks any understanding of our problem area, 75% of the time it only works for a specific scenario (the prompted case), and almost 100% of the time, when I comment about this, I'm told to take it over and make it work... and to use Claude. I've kind of decided this is my last job…
>so you can make fries and ketchup from the same plant!
We should be friends. I like your ideas.
Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#555Haven'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 been tasked with code reviews of Claude chat bot written code (not Claude code that has RAG and can browse the file system). It always lacks any understanding of our problem area, 75% of the time it only works for a specific scenario (the prompted case), and almost 100% of the time, when I comment about this, I'm told to take it over and make it work... and to use Claude. I've kind of decided this is my last job…
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Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#556Earlier quoted context omitted.
Concept -> LLM fluff -> LLM summary -> Recipient This kinda risks the broken telephone problem, or when you translate from one language to another and then again to another - context and nuance is always lost. Just give me the bullet points, it's more efficient anyway. No need to add tons of adjectives and purple prose around it to fluff it up.
Some day someone brilliant will discover the idea of "sharing prompts" to get around this issue. So, instead of sending the clean and summarized LLM output, you'll just send your prompt, and then the recipient can read that, and in response, share their prompt back to the original sender.
Venkat Rao's "Sloptraptions" essays (https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/s/sloptraptions) are the version of this that isn't pithy. (https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/to-know-is-to-stage is particularly good.)
Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#557Surprised to see HN being bearish on this. I have 10 years of experience. I am a reasonable engineer. I can tell you that about half of the hype on twitter is real. It is a real blessing for small teams. We have 100k DAU for a consumer crud app. We built and maintain everything in-house with 3 engineers. This would have taken atleast 10 engineers 3-4 years back. We don't have a bug list. We are not "vibe coding" , 2…
HN is in denial, which is understandable AI is already better at understanding code than 99.99% of human, the more I use it the more I believe this is true. It can draw connections between dots far quicker and accurate than a human could ever be. At very least, AI is going to be a must even as a co-supervisor to your project What in doubt right now, is whether AI can manage a codebase fully autonomously without bring…
The RAG models are very competent at programming. I am worried about my job as a SWE in the near future, but didn't the MIT paper about a week ago pretty much confirm that width-scaling the model is about to (or has already) stopped giving any measurable increase in quality because the training data no longer overfills the model?
Any authentic training data from pre-LLM's is assumed to have been used in training already and synthetic or generated data gives worse performing models, so the path of increasing its training data seems to be a dead end as well?
What is the next vector of training? Maybe data curation? Remove the low quality entries and accept a smaller, but more accurate data set?
I think the AI companies are starting to sweat a little, considering the promises they have made, their inability to deliver and turn a profit at its current state and the slowing improvements.
Interesting times! We are either all out of jobs or a massive market crash is imminent, awesome...
Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#558Haven'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 been tasked with code reviews of Claude chat bot written code (not Claude code that has RAG and can browse the file system). It always lacks any understanding of our problem area, 75% of the time it only works for a specific scenario (the prompted case), and almost 100% of the time, when I comment about this, I'm told to take it over and make it work... and to use Claude. I've kind of decided this is my last job…
For what is worth, I prefer the name pomato to totato.
Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#559I'm extremely checked out, basically just waiting to be PIPed. KPIs and bonuses are starting to be tied to AI, and every initiative is about AI, despite it making no sense in our product. About half my team is spamming about AI all day, and the other half is trying to use it as little as possible to not be fired. Productivity has hit the floor. I don't care if I lose this job, but I will be really sad if I find that every job has become this.
I am also using it personally for gardening. Plant recommendations, amendments, etc. I always verify everything it says though and it's wrong about 15% of the time, but it helps to get started as a relative noob (something that seems to also come up with programming - noobs love AI, pros not so much).
For example, it recommended I plant deep-rooted daikon as a spring cover crop to help decompact the soil. Seems reasonable; I had heard daikon helps with this; looks like it can grow in my climate in the spring; I almost bought seeds. Then I read that if you plant in spring, it will bolt before it forms taproots. That would be fine if I were growing daikon to eat, but recommending it for a spring cover crop makes no sense.
Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
#560Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been tasked with code reviews of Claude chat bot written code (not Claude code that has RAG and can browse the file system). It always lacks any understanding of our problem area, 75% of the time it only works for a specific scenario (the prompted case), and almost 100% of the time, when I comment about this, I'm told to take it over and make it work... and to use Claude. I've kind of decided this is my last job…
For what is worth, I prefer the name pomato to totato.
I'll keep that in mind when marketing. I was going to go with French Fry Tree.