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Technus@lemmy.zip 1 day agoI’m a senior dev and I want nothing to do with AI. By the time I understand what I want well enough to describe it in a complete sentence or paragraph, I can just write the fucking code myself. I figure it out as I go.
The whole point of having devs under you that is to be able to trust them to get the job done and do it right. You want to be able to delegate tasks to them and not have to peek over their shoulder every five fucking minutes to be certain they’re not making a mess of things.
I seriously doubt AI will ever be able to replace that. Not until they figure out how to make it afraid of fucking up.
slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
As a senior dev I have found AI useful for auto completion and code analysis as it does find some bugs. I would never trust it with anything even remotely complex though.
It kinda scares me that people trust it enough for “agent mode”, as giving it direct access to change stuff directly has simply put never worked.
kiku@feddit.org 1 day ago
Yes. It’s extremely helpful when I’m doing a refactor and can just go TAB TAB TAB TAB Oops not that TAB TAB done. Saves me a lot of time with the boilerplate, but is very bad at the logic portions.
slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You do refactoring with auto complete?