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Re: AI is a bad tool

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Post by deterministic » Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 3:49 AM UTC

jwpapi wrote: post #46

datakan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you not enjoy coding? I'm not trying to be snarky, just a genuine question. People used to enjoy it but lately all I see are people talking about they "no longer have to do it" I see both sides of the argument people endless have over this. I have been hesitant to take a solid position, first because I suck at coding and second because I dont really have a dog in this fight. The only context I have is my friend in…

I don’t know but to me it seems a bunch of people should learn proper typing. There is no way in world that AI is faster in solving/writing problems than you are when you can maneuver your idea/vim properly and have proper domain knowledge and mental model of your codebase. I think it’s genuinely 10x as fast. Just on execution and then if you write it you keep mental model, decide details and you don’t lose context.…

> I don’t know but to me it seems a bunch of people should learn proper typing

There is no way your hands can produce code faster than a machine.

Even before AI, I used a custom code generator for years. It generated about 90% of the code needed for large business applications in seconds, including support for multiple protocols, database adapters (Oracle, SQLite, in-memory, etc.), and programming languages such as C++, TypeScript, and Java.

Writing the same amount of code by hand would have taken even the fastest developer months. The machine did it in seconds, and it did it consistently and bug free.

Re: AI is a bad tool

#102

Post by nijuashi » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 12:03 AM UTC

datakan wrote: post #16

m_w_ wrote: post #2

I can only imagine that people who say things like: > If you use AI for anything else, and in particularly if you use it to generate code, you're wasting your time. Have not used frontier models in at least a year. It is nearly inconceivable to me that I would ever go back to writing code by hand, in any context. Even if no new model was ever released, the combination of GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek V4 flash is more than suf…

Do you not enjoy coding? I'm not trying to be snarky, just a genuine question. People used to enjoy it but lately all I see are people talking about they "no longer have to do it" I see both sides of the argument people endless have over this. I have been hesitant to take a solid position, first because I suck at coding and second because I dont really have a dog in this fight. The only context I have is my friend in…

Yes, but it’s like walking. I enjoy walking, but I’d rather drive to get to another town.

Re: AI is a bad tool

#103

Post by em-bee » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 2:26 AM UTC

nijuashi wrote: post #102

datakan wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you not enjoy coding? I'm not trying to be snarky, just a genuine question. People used to enjoy it but lately all I see are people talking about they "no longer have to do it" I see both sides of the argument people endless have over this. I have been hesitant to take a solid position, first because I suck at coding and second because I dont really have a dog in this fight. The only context I have is my friend in…

Yes, but it’s like walking. I enjoy walking, but I’d rather drive to get to another town.

to stress that analogy even further, i don't want to drive, i don't even have a drivers license. i rather arrange my life in such a way that i don't ever need to get to another town if driving is the only way to get there. translation: i'd rather not build an app at all if an LLM is the only way for me to achieve it.