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random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Not a coder. I can understand most python code and powershell scripts that others have done, but I don’t remember syntax, if I need to make something from scratch. Doing that involves ton of googling and reading awful documentation that still leaves some things out. I do this maybe twice a year.

For someone like me AI coding is a god sent.

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Dot@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

If you’re someone who has no actual interest in learning to code, and instead see AI as more of a freelancer—telling it stuff like “make a kart racer game,” and “that sucks, make it better”—then none of this really applies to you.

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peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

doing that involves a ton of googling and reading awful documentation

Yes. That is programming.

To most of us, the syntax is the easy part to remember, and our IDEs take care of most of it. Being able to bang our heads through the documentation and experiment with libraries is pretty much what our jobs are.

AI coding is basically a shortcut to some of the stuff we have to repeat with slight changes in our software. It’s also useful for setting up more complex code that we know we’ll have to tweak.

Expecting it to produce something with the desired results is a recipe for disaster. It’s basically a cheaper outsourcing method that can’t actually compile and run it’s code before giving it to you.

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