Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code?
Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I have a coworker who is essentially building a custom program in Sheets using AppScript, and has been using CGPT/Gemini the whole way.
While this person has a basic grasp of the fundamentals, there’s a lot of missing information that gets filled in by the bots. Ultimately after enough fiddling, it will spit out usable code that works how it’s supposed to, but honestly it ends up taking significantly longer to guide the bot into making just the right solution for a given problem. Not to mention the code is just a mess - even though it works there’s no real consistency since it’s built across prompts.
I’m confident that in this case and likely in plenty of other cases like it, the amount of time it takes to learn how to ask the bot the right questions in totality would be better spent just reading the documentation for whatever language is being used. At that point it might be worth it to spit out simple code that can be easily debugged.
Ultimately, it just feels like you’re offloading complexity from one layer to the next, and in so doing quickly acquiring tech debt.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Exactly my experience as well. Using AI will take about the same amount of time as just doing it myself, but at least I’ll understand the code at the end if I do it myself. Even if AI was a little faster to get working code, writing it yourself will pay off in debugging later.
And honestly, I enjoy writing code more than chatting with a bot. So if the time spent is going to be similar, I’m going to lean toward DIY every time.