Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

• MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hell yea. Our unit test coverage went way up because you can blow through test creation in second. I had a large complicated migration from one data set to another with specific mutations based on weird rules and GPT got me 80% of the way there and with a little nudging basically got it perfect. Code that would’ve taken a few hours took about 6 prompts. If I’m curious about a new library I can get a working example right away to see how everything fits together. When these articles say there’s no benefit I feel people aren’t using these tools or don’t know how to use them effectively.

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s useful, you just gotta keep it on a short leash, which is difficult when you don’t know what you’re doing

    Basically, it’s a useful tool for experienced developers that know what to look out for

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    • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      From the combined comments it looks like if you are a beginner or a pro then it’s great; if you only have just enough knowledge to be dangerous (in german that’s proverbial “gefährliches Halbwissen”) you should probably stay away from it :-)

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