[rvdginste]

When I read about people using AI to write code, it always seems to me that it would be a lot faster and less hassle if they would write the code themselves, without even considering the fact that it would give them more experience and make them better.

I have used some of those tools myself, and for the code that I could use help of an AI tool, I, again and again, receive junk: code that looks plausible but that does not compile, uses apis or libraries that do not exist and so on. In the end, it just made me waste time.

[MattPalmer1086]

I find it useful when I'm working with some unfamiliar technology. It can get me up and running much faster, and even debug code to some extent.

I used it yesterday to fix a problem with my makefile. I couldn't see the issue, gave it to chatGPT. It gave me some code that didn't actually work for some reason, but which had the correct solution to my problem in it. I just ported over the solution to mine, job done. This was after spending a couple of fruitless hours reading documentation and blog posts.

[steveBK123]

we had a guy on our team who was using ChatGPT aggressively in his awful code, to the point of putting his prompts in as comments

he did not last long...

this is the kind of developer you have to explain (repeatedly) why things need to run on servers & service accounts rather than his laptop as his personal ID

[paiute]

Force multiplier.

[paiute]

I felt the same about ai until the newer chatgpt. It’s really better than i am. It’s never perfect, but I don’t think I’ll ever go without it now.