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I wonder whether LLMs are capable of doing more; probably, we need another paradigm for that; still, they are very, very useful when used right
Yes, this is how I use AI. Indeed, self-invented abstractions are a bridge too far for AI. You have to keep it close to the path already walked before by thousands of developers. This makes AI more of a search engine on steroids than anything else.
I recently spent over an hour trying to get ChatGPT to give me some pretty simple rsync commands. It kept giving me command line parameters that didn't work on the version of rsync on my mac. With ~50% of the failures, it would go down troubleshooting rabbit holes and the rest of the time it would "realize" that it was giving incorrect version responses. I tell it to validate each parameter against my version moving…
I don't understand why people take bad coding practices and just let AI run with it and then expect nothing but poor quality code. Nothing about the AI revolution here changes how good software has always been written. Write tests, use a typed language, review code. If you have good patterns, good procedures, AI fits right in and fills in the blanks perfectly. Poor AI results tend to be the pot calling the kettle bla…
I recently spent over an hour trying to get ChatGPT to give me some pretty simple rsync commands. It kept giving me command line parameters that didn't work on the version of rsync on my mac. With ~50% of the failures, it would go down troubleshooting rabbit holes and the rest of the time it would "realize" that it was giving incorrect version responses. I tell it to validate each parameter against my version moving…
Javascript is a nightmare as they change everything constantly. PHP has backwards compatibility for everything so its not really an issue.
It also gives out dated info on salesforce, and im not just talking about the latest and greatest, it recommends stuff that was deprecated years ago.
I don't understand why people take bad coding practices and just let AI run with it and then expect nothing but poor quality code. Nothing about the AI revolution here changes how good software has always been written. Write tests, use a typed language, review code. If you have good patterns, good procedures, AI fits right in and fills in the blanks perfectly. Poor AI results tend to be the pot calling the kettle bla…
I think bad practices will always be around as most code on Guthub was probably written with bad practices. The well is poisoned.
I recently spent over an hour trying to get ChatGPT to give me some pretty simple rsync commands. It kept giving me command line parameters that didn't work on the version of rsync on my mac. With ~50% of the failures, it would go down troubleshooting rabbit holes and the rest of the time it would "realize" that it was giving incorrect version responses. I tell it to validate each parameter against my version moving…
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Exactly. AI is your intern, not your contractor.
More precisely, AI is your intern who won't improve during the internship, ever.
And if you have a compelling thesis, why hasn't this spread to the investing community?
I used Gemini AI studio for this and I was very pleased at the result and decided to open source it. I have completely captured and documented the development transcript. Personally it has give me considerable productivity boost. My only irritation was the unnecessarily over politeness that AI adopts in My take is
AI yields good ROI when you know exactly what you want at the end of the process and when you want to compare and contrast decision choices during the process.
I have used it for all artifacts of the project: - Core code base - Test cases - Build scripts - Documentation - Sample apps - Utilities
Transcript - https://gingerhome.github.io/gingee-docs/docs/ai-transcript/... Project - https://github.com/gingerhome/gingee
Not asking for feedback is the killer for me. Even most junior developers will ask for more information if they don't have enough context/confidence to complete a task.
I have taken to appending "DO NOT START WRITING CODE." to almost every prompt.. I try to get it to analyze and ask questions and summarize what its going to do first, and even then it will sometimes ignore that and jump into writing (the wrong) code. A big part of the wrangling seems to be getting it to analyze or reason before charging down a wrong path.