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  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 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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      8 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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        7 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.

        • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
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          3 hours ago

          Even if it does write code that works, it usually (about 50% of the time in my experience) has bugs, and sometimes those bugs can be really difficult to spot. For me, it has never saved me any time. I’m either fixing something it doesn’t know how to do correctly, or going over its code with a fine tooth comb because when it says, “this is production ready code, with no bugs,” it’s usually wrong. That takes a lot of time. It’s easier for me to just write the code correctly myself.

          Admittedly, I haven’t used that new model that Anthropic revoked access to the public to recently. Maybe that one is good enough for government work.