Comment on 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds

GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I was trying to find out how to get human readable timestamps from my shell history. They gave me this crazy script. It worked but it was super slow. Later I learned you could do history -i.

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  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Turns out, a lot of the problems in nixland were solved 3 decades ago with a single flag of built-in utilities.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Apart from me not reading the manual (or skimming to quick) I might have asked the LLM to check the history file rather than the command. Idk. I honestly didn’t know the history command did anything different than just printing the history file

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      • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        • man history

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  • bricklove@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I didn’t know about this. Thank you for the knowledge fellow human!

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  • trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t run crazy scripts in my machine. If I don’t understand it’s not safe enough.

    That’s how you get pranked and hacked

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• andallthat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  TBH those same colleagues were probably just copy/pasting code from the first google result or stackoverflow answer, so arguably AI did make them more productive at what they do

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  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    yay!! do more stupid shit faster and with more baseless confidence!

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  • rozodru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    2012 me feels personally called out by this. fuck 2012 me that lazy fucker. stackoverflow was my “get out of work early and hit the bar” card.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I asked it to spot a typo in my code, it worked but it rewrote my classes for each function that called them

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  • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I gave it a fair shake after my team members were raving about it saving time last year, I tried a SFTP function and some Terraform modules and man both of them just didn’t work. it did however do a really solid job of explaining some data operation functions I wrote, which I was really happy to see. I do try to add a detail block to my functions and be explicit with typing where appropriate so that probably helped some but yeah, was actually impressed by that. For generation though, maybe it’s better now, but I still prefer to pull up the documentation as I spent more time debugging the crap it gave me than piecing together myself.

    I’d use a llm tool for interactive documentation and reverse engineering aids though, I personally think that’s where it shines, otherwise I’m not sold on the “gen ai will somehow fix all your problems” hype train.

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    • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think the best current use case for AI when it comes to coding is autocomplete.

      I hate coding without Github Copilot now. You’re still in full control of what you’re building, the AI just autocompletes the menial shit you’ve written thousands of times already.

      When it comes to full applications/projects, AI still has some way to go.

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      • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I can get that for sure, I did see a client using it for debugging which seemed interesting as well, made an attempt to narrow down where the error occurred and what actually caused it.

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• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But I don’t like using Argparse!

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