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I Will Never Use AI to Code
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#32I was a hand tool woodworker, but the first time I had to rip 56 6 foot boards into 7 strips I immediately purchased a table saw. Now I use hand tools rarely because I find the speed and quality of my cuts are better. I still use hand tools for things that require certain standards, but electric tools almost always produce better quality results. It’s about the same for AI coding, I just get better results.
Your power tools run out of tokens and you have to open yet another online account to get around the daily sawing limits in order to finish the task today?
local models exist
Re: I Will Never Use AI to Code
#33I was a hand tool woodworker, but the first time I had to rip 56 6 foot boards into 7 strips I immediately purchased a table saw. Now I use hand tools rarely because I find the speed and quality of my cuts are better. I still use hand tools for things that require certain standards, but electric tools almost always produce better quality results. It’s about the same for AI coding, I just get better results.
Your power tools run out of tokens and you have to open yet another online account to get around the daily sawing limits in order to finish the task today?
You can use qwen 3.5 for genuinely useful stuff without worrying about subscriptions and tokens. The 35b model works well on my Mac Studio and does all kinds of menial tasks so I can use my subscriptions for more important or complex things. I don’t think it’ll be long until models comparable to Sonnet today will run on my machine.
I have no idea what the frontier will look like in a few years but I don’t doubt local models like qwen will still be a staple of my workflows.
And for what it’s worth, there are people out there who lose their sawing ability because a safety brake totals their blade and needs to be replaced for something like $100. Sometimes we pay extra for features we value. We can always pull out the hand tools if we have to. In the mean time, make hay I guess.
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#35I love using AI to code, as it saves me a lot of boring and repetitive typing. I only commit code that is roughly the same as I would have written anyway. It feels as good for developer ergonomics as the move away from CRT monitors.
Just how much boilerplate have people been putting up with for this to be an oft cited advantage of LLM usage? I know boilerplate has to exist somewhere, but I've been labouring these past couple decades under the assumption that boilerplate should be rare and to be avoided.
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#36Meanwhile written by AI.
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#37We still know how to ride horses but we also drive cars, now. You want to be delivery service that takes 2 days instead of 30 minutes to bring you pizza so that you don't forget how to ride your horse..?
Most people would not be able to ride horse properly, that would end up in catastrophe (or nothing just standing around or going to random directions). So your analogy is good but not in way you probably intended.
My point was, if you still want to know how to code you can, without having to lose all your customers.
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#38This kind of writing makes you sound immature.
People used to drive manual. Now it’s all automatic transmission. Some cars even drive itself.
People used to proudly use Vi to write code. But now IDE is commonplace.
People used to write asm by hand. Transport Tycoon was written in assembly. But these days that would be insane.
Technological progress is an absolute thing. It produces too much convenience and wealth to ignore.
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#39Why is this submission flagged? It's on topic isn't it?
Re: I Will Never Use AI to Code
#40I was a hand tool woodworker, but the first time I had to rip 56 6 foot boards into 7 strips I immediately purchased a table saw. Now I use hand tools rarely because I find the speed and quality of my cuts are better. I still use hand tools for things that require certain standards, but electric tools almost always produce better quality results. It’s about the same for AI coding, I just get better results.
Is it? Isn't the inverse? The speed of your cuts is improved with AI a bit, but aren't the cuts all rough and need additional work? Isn't the quality less than what you would do by hand?
Because that's what every AI usage I've experienced has been.
Faster, yes. Useful, yes. Not better "finish".