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Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by iExploder »

jcmontx wrote: post #531
michaelteter wrote: post #520

It is phenomenal. I have a lot of experience, low and high level. These AI tools allow me to "discuss" possibilities, research approaches, and test theories orders of magnitude faster than I could in the past. I would roughly estimate that my ability to produce useful products is at least 20x. A good bit of that 'x' is because of the elimination of mental barriers. There have always been good ideas I had which I knew…

It's really interesting how delusional people here can get when their livelihood depends on it. It's a game changer guys. I've been working professionally for 12 years. Big companies, small companies, freelance, startup CTO nowadays. It's multiplier. It gives me superpowers. If you don't feel the superpowers, you're either missing out or in denial. Embrace agentic coding.

first hit is always free as they say :) lets hope we can get off of it once they hike the price...

Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by lazystar »

j3k3 wrote: post #6
lazystar wrote: post #3

my team is anti-AI. my code review requests are ignored, or are treated more strictly than others. it feels coordinated - i will have to push back the launch date of my project as a result. another teammate added a length check to an input field, and his request was merged near instantly, even though it had zero unit testing. this team is incredibly cooked in the long term, i just need to ensure that i survive the sh…

" this team is incredibly cooked in the long term" they're not actually. People like you are making sunk expenditures whilst the models are evolving... they can just wait until the models get to 'steady-state' to figure out the optimal workflow. They will have lost out on far less.

aye, totally correct.

funny story, figured out the root cause behind 3 years of brain fog just a few hours after i left this comment. it wasnt long covid; turns out my eyes were so swollen from screentime, that they were cutting off blood flow to my prefrontal cortex. started using a portable eye massage device, and poof - back to normal. just have to clean up the mistakes i made while i was sleep deprived and caveman like.

Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by lazystar »

block_dagger wrote: post #192
lazystar wrote: post #3

my team is anti-AI. my code review requests are ignored, or are treated more strictly than others. it feels coordinated - i will have to push back the launch date of my project as a result. another teammate added a length check to an input field, and his request was merged near instantly, even though it had zero unit testing. this team is incredibly cooked in the long term, i just need to ensure that i survive the sh…

I would start looking for a job at an AI-leaning firm.

aye, fair assessment.

funny story, figured out the root cause behind 3 years of brain fog just a few hours after i left this comment. it wasnt long covid; turns out my eyes were so swollen from screentime, that they were cutting off blood flow to my prefrontal cortex. started using a portable eye massage device, and poof - back to normal. just have to clean up the mistakes i made while i was sleep deprived and caveman like.

Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by qsera »

minhaz23 wrote: post #485
Xcelerate wrote: post #381

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using ChatGPT to teach myself all sorts of interesting fields of mathematics that I've wanted to learn but never had the time previously. I use the Pro version to pull up as many actual literature references as I can. I don't use it at all to program despite that being my day job for exactly the reason you mentioned. I know I'll totally forget how to program. During a tight crunch period, I might use it as…

How do you get chatgpt to teach you well? I feel like no matter how dense and detailed i ask it to be or how much i ask it to elaborate and contextualize topics with their adjacent topics to give me a full holistic understanding, it just sucks at it and is always short of helping me truly understand and intuit the subject matter.

Yes, this is my experience as well. At some point you would be better off find something written by a human, because AI would just take you in circles.

Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by nerptastic »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #580
nerptastic wrote: post #537

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have a 200K LOC repository and you haven’t written 99.5% of it?

It was generated for me in accordance with the architecture and constraints I defined for the agent; and I’ve reviewed every line. TDD really is that good.

How many pages of architecture / constraints did you write? I guess I’m curious what type of text input renders 200K lines of code output. It must be a similar level of tokens in just docs / prompting. Have you verified all of that? Was that AI generated?

Would be very interested to see whether it’s not just… regular LLM snowballing a paragraph into 12 pages of “technical design documents” and 10K lines of code. Not sure what kind of niche you’re in or what the business logic is, but it sounds to me like you’ve built a machine that… generates code you don’t need to look at??

Re: Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

nerptastic wrote: post #637
cadamsdotcom wrote: post #580

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was generated for me in accordance with the architecture and constraints I defined for the agent; and I’ve reviewed every line. TDD really is that good.

How many pages of architecture / constraints did you write? I guess I’m curious what type of text input renders 200K lines of code output. It must be a similar level of tokens in just docs / prompting. Have you verified all of that? Was that AI generated? Would be very interested to see whether it’s not just… regular LLM snowballing a paragraph into 12 pages of “technical design documents” and 10K lines of code. Not…

There was a 200 word architectur doc that lasted about 3 weeks before it drifted so it got deleted. I no longer keep architecture docs - tests and code are enough for the agent to answer questions when we have them.

Probably wrote 2000+ words of prompts per day to the agent, Monday to Friday, for like 9 months. Dozens to hundreds of prompts a day back and forth with anywhere from 1-7 concurrent agents at a time.

This is not something anyone would ever one-shot. There are thousands of commits. My commit log looks like a normal squash-merge-to-main-and-deploy workflow.

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