I won't deliberately use AI for programming
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I won't deliberately use AI for programming
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#2i think everyone learns differently, and one person's "toggling between 30 tabs" is another's "having this explained to me personally over and over"
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#3I strongly disagree with this perspective. I have found GPT4 in particular to be very helpful in learning new programming languages and improving my overall coding. I still solve problems myself and I still read books, but GPT4 is the TA that I can have a conversation with about a piece of code. It's all about how you use it. If you just ask it to tell you complete answers or generate code on a blank page then you're doing yourself a disservice.
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#4I strongly disagree with this perspective. I have found GPT4 in particular to be very helpful in learning new programming languages and improving my overall coding. I still solve problems myself and I still read books, but GPT4 is the TA that I can have a conversation with about a piece of code. It's all about how you use it. If you just ask it to tell you complete answers or generate code on a blank page then you're…
Yeah this logic would have us writing everything in assembly and only using textbooks.
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#5What a luddite argument! AI can show you previously unknown ways, often the pragmatic and idiomatic ways to solve problems. It can also explain code in depth. I don‘t know how I‘d have quickly mastered the shitty "drool syntax" I had the displeasure to work with today. No other tool allowed one to become fluent in a new language or framework this fast, ever before.
Sounds the same like people who rejected IDEs. Or even syntax highlighting. Yes, those people existed and some might still rawdog xml and java in vi today.
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#6I’ve found that GPT-4 now fills the role that Google once did for me when learning new things.
For whatever reason the Google results just aren’t as useful as they used to be. Highly specific queries return very generalized results, and it takes a lot of effort to find something relevant.
With ChatGPT I can ask it how to do just about anything in any language and it nearly always gives me exactly what I need.
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#7I do so many things manually that have been successfully automated for a long time. Washing dishes, splitting firewood, grinding coffee, owning manual transmission cars, I could go on. Some things are subjectively better like splitting firewood; It's more work but quieter. Some things are objectively better; washing dished by hand are cleaner. I don't think about it too much.
I guess I'll just add programming to that list and not think about it too much.
Re: I won't deliberately use AI for programming
#8I do so many things manually that have been successfully automated for a long time. Washing dishes, splitting firewood, grinding coffee, owning manual transmission cars, I could go on. Some things are subjectively better like splitting firewood; It's more work but quieter. Some things are objectively better; washing dished by hand are cleaner. I don't think about it too much. I guess I'll just add programming to that…
But you do use a car, instead of walking everywhere.
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#9I have gone past the point of giving a shit. Unless it's something I really care about the minuscule details for I'll get ChatGPT to write the main chunk of code and then fix the bugs. It's no different than having a junior dev working for you, except it's quicker and doesn't piss off to lunch or go sick when you need them.
Re: I won't deliberately use AI for programming
#10I do so many things manually that have been successfully automated for a long time. Washing dishes, splitting firewood, grinding coffee, owning manual transmission cars, I could go on. Some things are subjectively better like splitting firewood; It's more work but quieter. Some things are objectively better; washing dished by hand are cleaner. I don't think about it too much. I guess I'll just add programming to that…
washing dishes by hand are absolutely NOT cleaner and ultimately extremely wasteful in terms of water used.
use a dishwasher from the last 20 years.