Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
theterrasque@infosec.pub 2 days agoIt regurgitates old code, it cannot come up with new stuff.
The trick is, most of what you write is basically old code in new wrapping. In most projects, I’d say the new and novel part is maybe 10% of the code. The rest is things like setting up db models, connecting them to base logic, set up views, api endpoints, decoding the message on the ui part, displaying it to user, handling input back, threading things so UI doesn’t hang, error handling, input data verification, basic unit tests, set up settings, support reading them from a file or env vars, making UI look not horrible, add translatable text, and so on and on and on. All that has been written in some variation a million times before. The actual new interesting part is gonna be a small small percentage of the total code.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I totally agree with this. However, you can’t get there without coding experience and knowledge of the problem as well as education in computer science or experience in the field. I’m a generalist, I’m loving what I can do at home. But I still get the run around using AI. I have to read and understand the code to try to nudge the AI in the right direction or I’ll end up going in circles if I don’t.