Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThey rather zone out and mindlessly click, copy/paste, etc. I’d rather analyze and break down the problem so I can solve it once and then move onto something more interesting to solve.
From what I’ve seen of AI code in my time using it, it often is an advanced form of copying and pasting. It frequently takes problems that could be better solved more efficiently with fewer lines of code or by generalizing the problem and does the (IMO evil) work of making the solution that used to require the most drudgery easy.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why are you typing so much in the first place?
Software development for me is not a term paper. I once encountered a piece of software in industry that was maintaining what would be a database in any sane piece of software using a hashmap and thousands of lines of code.
AI makes software like this easier to write without your eyes glazing over, but it’s been my career mission to stop people from writing this type of software in the first place.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago