If so, I’d like to know about that questions:

  • Do you use an code autocomplete AI or type in a chat?
  • Do you consider environment damage that use of AIs can cause?
  • What type of AI do you use?
  • Usually, what do you ask AIs to do?
  • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
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    8 days ago

    Yeah, I use Claude/ChatGPT sometimes for:

    • Throwaway scripts: “write me a bash script to delete all merged git branches starting with ‘foo’”
    • Writing functions that are tedious to look up but I can fairly easily evaluate for correctness: “write a C function to spawn a process and capture stdout and stderr merged”
    • Doing stuff in systems I’m not very familiar with: “write an OCaml function to copy a file”

    I haven’t got around to setting up any of that agentic stuff yet. Based on my experience of the chat stuff I’m a bit skeptical it will be good enough to be useful on anything of the complexity I work on. Find for CRUD apps but it’s not going to understand niche compiler internals or do stuff with WASM runtimes that nobody has ever done before.

    • porksnort@slrpnk.net
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      8 days ago

      That’s about all I have found it good for too. Larger projects need solid architecture that the coder understands well. If you leave architectural decisions to LLM, they build some real janky solutions that take more time to sus out and correct than it takes to just so do it yourself.