• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    There are papers that are pro and con. It’s a new tech - we’re still figuring out how to use it. It’s gotten a lot better than a year or two ago though.

    It’s definitely helped me get things done a lot faster. You can point to “that one study everyone does” and tell me “no it’s not” but honestly, it is.

    I’ll give you an example - I had to write a small bash script to fix home directory ownership on a server because somebody borked it and some critical jobs weren’t launching properly. Just something to read /etc/passwd, parse out the owner and home dir and chown-R $user $home. Dozens of user dirs so quicker to just script it.

    Time was of the essence. Claude had a script in ~6 seconds. Yeah - I could have written it - but not that fast. I validated the output and gave it a run. All’s good.

    You can insult me as “not good developer” or whatever you need to do to make yourself feel better - your opinion of me is irrelevant. But these tools are pretty damn good at what they do if you use them properly. “Properly” being the key word here. They are tools not employees so you need the proper critical thinking to apply them effectively.

    • Solumbran@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      It’s funny how everyone that tries to defend the use of AI, other than deny the fact that most evidence (and common sense/basic understanding of AIs) points to the idea that it’s just negative, always avoid the subject of environment.

      Even if you assumed that you get the same result with Claude or whatever in 6 seconds, and with your brain in five minutes… Is the end of humanity and a massive extinction event worth those 5 minutes?

      Defending AI while there are literally news popping out right now about heat waves being more violent than ever recorded and killing thousands of people per day in countries that had no problems with heat a few decades ago, is extremely selfish and self-centered. And the only justification is “it’s a bit faster and easier”. Okay.

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      11 hours ago

      Yeah this is the type of constrained use case I use it for too. Same with unit tests and testing in general.