Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI sent a PR back to a Dev five times before I gave the work to someone else.
they used AI to generate everything.
surprise, there were so many problems it broke the whole stack.
this is a routine thing this one dev does too. every PR has to be tossed back at least once. not expecting perfection, but I do expect it to not break the whole app.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Like I told another person ITT, hiring terrible devs isn’t something you can blame on software.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
that depends on your definition of what a “terrible dev” is.
of the three devs that I know have used AI, all we’re moderately acceptable devs before they relied on AI. this formed my opinion that AI code and the devs that use it are terrible.
two of those three I no longer work with because they were let go for quality and productivity issues.
so you can clearly see why my opinion of AI code is so low.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would argue that it’s obvious if someone doesn’t know how to use a tool to do their job, they aren’t great at their job to begin with.
Your argument is to blame the tool and excuse the person who is awful with the tool.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
my argument is that lazy devs use the tool because that’s what it was designed for.
just calling a hammer a hammer.