I assume it refers to assets and mechanics that actively involve AI. If you’re using Copilot to finish your switch case, I don’t think that would count.
Rooster326@programming.dev 4 months ago
What exactly is “Used AI” though?
Most developers are going to have some form of auto complete - AI powered or not.
Is it just assets? Or?
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
rtxn@lemmy.world 4 months ago
auto complete
It’s called lexical analysis or lexical tokenization. It existed long before LLMs, it doesn’t rely on stolen code, and doesn’t consume a small village’s worth of electricity. Superficial parallels with chatbots do not make it AI – it’s a fucking algorithm.
froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
i think it’s impossible totally exclude ai from a developing process nowadays (you googled something? you use ai. etc.), but not having generated images/assets/texts is realistic
echodot@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Autocomplete isn’t AI. It’s string recognition which predates AI by about 35 years.
T9 predictive texting definitely didn’t contain AI, but was absolutely a thing for a really long time.
Rooster326@programming.dev 4 months ago
There are 2 versions these days.
One powered by AI that can complete the rest of your function, and regular that is typically only the word you are working on.
fonix232@fedia.io 4 months ago
And more and more engineers use genAI to generate code. Hell, even I do, because it's superb at getting the boilerplate ready from standard definitions, allowing me to focus on the important bits.
LLMs are also pretty great at extrapolating a good working document from basic requirements.
They're really just a quite knowledgeable but inexperienced intern, and any software engineer that refuses to utilise them to some extent will be left behind - just like those who refused to move to IDEs with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and other helper tools.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 4 months ago
you’re gonna have the vim users grabbing their pitchforks if you don’t watch it.