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It can complete coding tasks. But that’s not the same as replacing a developer. In the same way that cutting wood doesn’t make me a carpenter and soldering a wire doesn’t make me an electrician. I wish the AI crowd understood that.

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not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It can complete coding tasks, but not well AND unsupervised. To get it to do something well I need to tell it what it did wrong over 4 or 5 iterations.

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- Repelle@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This is close to my experience for a lot of tasks, but unless I’m working in a tech stack I’m unfamiliar with, I find doing it myself leads to not just better results, but faster, too. Problem is it makes you have to work harder to learn new areas, and management thinks it’s faster for everything and
  
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  - not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I think it’s still faster for a lot of things. If you have several different ideas for how to approach a problem the robot can POC them very quickly to help you decide which to use. And while doing that it’ll probably mention something that’ll give you ideas for another couple approaches. So you can come up with an optimal solution in about the same time as it’d take to clack out a single POC by hand.
    
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    Repelle@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, I was thinking about production code when I wrote that. Usually I can get something working faster that way, and for tests it can speed things up, too. But the code is so terrible in general
    
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thedruid@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yep. I wrote code almost entirely with a. I know for my own projects.

The amount of iteration and editing it requires almost requires a new specialty dev called "A. I developer support. ".

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- Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s honestly kinda awful. I’ve been trying to use it a bit to help speed up some of my projects at work, and it’s a crapshoot how well it helps. Some days I can give it the function I’m writing with an explanation of purpose and error output and it helps me fix it in 5 minutes. Other days I spend an hour endlessly iterating through asinine replies that get me no where (like when I tried to use it to help figure out a bit very well documented API, had it correct me and use a different method/endpoint until it gave up and went back to my way that didn’t even work! I ended up just hacking together a workaround that got it done in the most annoying way possible, but it accomplished the task so WTFE)
  
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  - rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    A nice “trick”: After 4 or so responses where you can’t get anywhere, start a new chat without the wrong context. Of course refine your question with whatever you have found out in the previous chat.
    
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