AI-written code is still your code
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AI-written code is still your code
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Re: AI-written code is still your code
#2I keep getting downvoted for saying this but I still review all of my AI generated code. I feel like I’m sufficiently sped up.
Of course you can go faster if you don’t read the code at all, that’s always been true. But it seems like the ability to emit large quantities of text is already a huge leap in productivity. I don’t think these tools are good enough yet to offload all or our thinking into them.
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#3Yes I'm more than okay. AI has enabled a scale of personal ambition I could only previously have dreamed of.
I've never been the kind of coder who could easily sit down and get their thoughts out from mind to written lines. I've seen that happen in a few gifted individuals, and AI might be frustrating them, because for them, coding was never the bottleneck, but for me, I would always get stuck in analysis paralysis, and just writing the first line of a project was a daunting prospect.
With AI I'm able to construct an entire ecosystem of programs I've always wanted.
The code isn't perfect, but I understand enough to fix architectural mistakes and to guide the AI to a good enough solution.
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#4it's the best keyboard extension I've ever used
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#5Yes.
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#6I'm not OK with it, but I have no choice besides maybe quitting my job.
I've also tried to understand the code that AI writes, but it's often insane and untangling it would slow me down so much that it would nullify the gains in speed that AI brings.
To me, either companies realize they're spending a lot more money to ship crappier code and AI becomes a niche, or we'll just stop looking at code. I don't think there's any other option because I don't see AI getting better at it. It seems to actually be getting worse and more annoying to use.
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#7Yes I'm more than okay. AI has enabled a scale of personal ambition I could only previously have dreamed of. I've never been the kind of coder who could easily sit down and get their thoughts out from mind to written lines. I've seen that happen in a few gifted individuals, and AI might be frustrating them, because for them, coding was never the bottleneck, but for me, I would always get stuck in analysis paralysis,…
Way to completely miss the point of the article.
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#8For most people employed as programmers, inheriting code from previous people has been a thing.
Also relevant: including libraries written by others in your own software.
As always it comes down to finding a healthy balance.
Re: AI-written code is still your code
#9Yes I'm more than okay. AI has enabled a scale of personal ambition I could only previously have dreamed of. I've never been the kind of coder who could easily sit down and get their thoughts out from mind to written lines. I've seen that happen in a few gifted individuals, and AI might be frustrating them, because for them, coding was never the bottleneck, but for me, I would always get stuck in analysis paralysis,…
Is this a bot, or real..?
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#10I'm fine with it. I'm just as liable or likely to write bugs in my own handwritten code as I am in generating code via AI, if not more likely.