Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For some of us that’s more useful. I’m currently playing a DevSecOps role and one of the defining characteristics is I need to know all the tools. On Friday, I was writing some Java modules, then some groovy glue, then spent the after writing a Python utility. While im reasonably good about jumping among languages and tools, those context switches are expensive. I definitely want ai help with that.

  That being said, ai is just a step up from search or autocomplete, it’s not magical. I’ve had the most luck with it generating unit tests since they tend to be simple and repetitive (also a major place for the juniors to screw up: ai doesn’t know whether the slop it’s pumping out is useful. You do need to guide it and understand it, and you really need to cull the dreck)

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think about how much the planet is heating up because people like me are a little too lazy to be competent. I am glad my nieces and nephews get to pay our price we are raising every day on their behalf, to improve theor world supposedly woth our extra productivity, right?

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