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Well it’s not improving my productivity, and it does mostly slow me down, but it’s kind of entertaining to watch sometimes. Just can’t waste time on trying to make it do anything complicated because that never goes well.

Tbh I’m mostly trying to use the AI tools my employer allows because it’s not actually necessary for me to believe that they’re helping. It’s good enough if the management thinks I’m more productive. They don’t understand what I’m doing anyway but if this gives them a warm fuzzy feeling because they think they’re getting more out of my salary, why not play along a little.

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theterrasque@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Just can’t waste time on trying to make it do anything complicated because that never goes well.

Yeah, that’s a waste of time. However, it can knock out simple code you can easily write yourself, but is boring to write and take time out of working on the real problems.

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- rozodru@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  for setting stuff up, putting down a basic empty framework, setting up dirs/files/whatever, it's great. in that regard yeah it'll save you time.
  
  For doing the ACTUAL work? no. maybe to help write say a simple function or whatever, sure. beyond that? if it can't nail it the first or second time? just ditch it.
  
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  - theterrasque@infosec.pub ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’ve found it useful to write test units once you’we written one or two, write specific functions and small scripts. For example some time ago I needed a script that found a machine’s public ip, then post that to an mqtt topic along with timestamp, with config abstracted out in a file.
    
    Now there’s nothing difficult with this, but just looking up what libraries to use and their syntax takes some time, along with actually writing the code. Also, since it’s so straight forward, it’s pretty boring. ChatGPT wrote it in under two minutes, working perfectly on first try.
    
    It’s also been helpful with bash scripts, powershell scripts and ansible playbooks. Things I don’t really remember the syntax on between use, and which are a bit arcane / exotic. It’s just a nice helper to have for the boring and simple things that still need to be done.
    
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