For me ai has been pretty useful. Difference is I'm not a software engineer, I just write scripts to help me do my job. If I wrote bigger applications I doubt llms could help me.
AI is awesome for small coding tasks, with a defined scope. I don't write shell (or powershell) scripts anymore, AI does it now for me.
But once a project has more than 20 source files, most AI tools seem to be unable to grasp the context of the project. In my experience AI is really bad at multi threading code and distributed systems. It seems to be unable to build its "mental model" for those kind of problems.
This. It's good at Cmake, and mostly good at dealing with COM boilerplate (although hallucinations are still a problem).
But threading and asynchronous code are implicit - there's a lot going on that you can't see on the page, you need to think about what the system is actually doing rather than simply the words to make it do the thing.
andix|1 year ago
But once a project has more than 20 source files, most AI tools seem to be unable to grasp the context of the project. In my experience AI is really bad at multi threading code and distributed systems. It seems to be unable to build its "mental model" for those kind of problems.
Earw0rm|1 year ago
But threading and asynchronous code are implicit - there's a lot going on that you can't see on the page, you need to think about what the system is actually doing rather than simply the words to make it do the thing.
dahousecat|1 year ago