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  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    I’m a retired software dev, but anactive developer I know talks about how much time he saves daily by using Claude for grunt work.

    • toofpic@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Most of the younger generation devs at my company are using ai coding - mostly for said gruntwork (like writing small functions, api methods, writing what data they want to see instead of complex sql requests), but some are more enthusiastic and use heavier agentic setups. The best validation is that we still have old-school human pull request reviews (enforced by a scary Chief R&D) and if your colleague would see something unreadable or weird, your stuff wouldn’t pass.
      I’m a Product Manager and I have several pet products now - all pretty viable (depending on the time I invested in each of course). A stocks website, a money splitting android app (now passing google play review), a weather app. All working, and I have really low coding skills myself

    • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      Tell him this: If you’re writing that much boilerplate (grunt work), you’re probably doing something wrong. If AI can write your normal work, you really should be learning, so not using AI at all.

      • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        Actually I’m not going to tell a dev with decades of experience that an internet rando thinks he’s doing his job wrong lol.

        • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
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          5 hours ago

          K. It’s astounding to me that after decades in the business, he’s still writing code that can be written by basically an intern.

          When I try to get AI to write my code, it stumbles all over itself just failing to understand the simplest of my libraries. (Literally it made multiple mistakes using the fucking tokenizer library I wrote that is so simple, an intern would have no problem with it.)

          • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 hours ago

            he’s still writing code that can be written by basically an intern He usually does full-stack projects by himself, so he has to do everything. And he’s using AI to do what interns could do. I’ve dabbled a little using VSCode AI myself to refactor and upgrade a couple hobby projects, and it didn’t “stumble all over itself” at all. In fact it conversed with me like an intern or colleague would, and made many proposals I agreed with. There are ways to craft your prompts that make AI work better. Maybe that’s your problem I dunno.