Comment on Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
count_dongulus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They can’t read your mind. A professional painter is going to make the exact image they want in far less time and with more accuracy than repeatedly prompting a black box to make small changes.
But if you’re an amateur and don’t really know what you want, or you’re not very picky or care about quality, then meh good enough. High level software developers know what they want. They are like painters. And at that point, the LLM isn’t reqlly solving problems for you. At best, it’s putting the paint to the canvas. That is, saving you typing time But time spent typing is definitely not the limiting factor for productivity in software.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
and this is the exact reason why I hate IDEs that relentlessly “do things” for me.
I don’t need my editor maintaining my includes or updating my lock files. I don’t need them to auto complete words or fix syntax for me.
I know exactly what I’m doing. If I don’t then-- AND ONLY THEN, will I lookup what I need and fix it myself.
if there’s a problem with formatting a linter will pick it up. if there’s a problem with syntax the runtime/compilation will pick it up. if there’s a problem with content uat will pick it up.
we don’t need to be MORE productive, we need to be more skilled and using tools like these only soften the mind and dull the spirit.