I've never had AI create working code anyway.
But it will generally point me in the right direction. It's useful for:
- Helping get your train of thought back in the right direction
- Automating what would be a lot of boilerplate/repetitive coding. Just beware you will still need to check it over.
You need to be skilled to spot the mistakes it will definitely make.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Good. There’s a lot of non-programmers who are now shitty ones and are using AI to make their ideas real. It’s made programming way more accessible to people who would never learn before.
Sabata11792@ani.social 4 hours ago
I got back into programming because I can ask an Ai my stupid questions I’m too dumb to google correctly. I haven’t otherwise wrote code since college and kinda revived a long dead hobby. It removes a barrier to entry that I otherwise gave up on. Been working on a project to teach myself python the last few months, with Ai replacing the roll of google for the most part.
Copy-pasting Ai code still blows up in your face just as much as code you stole from stack overflow…
LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
I wouldn’t say you’re dumb when it comes to Google. Their search is just a broken mess of dog shit now.
chakan2@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
No…stack I can usually figure out from the context of questions what went wrong. AI will very confidently and eloquently give you a very subtle bullshit answer.
raker@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Can confirm. Using AI for coding for a couple of months now. There sure is a lot of copy and paste, trail and error, but without the assistance I would not have been able to enhance and customize code like that. Now I am some steps further and was even able to question the AI output, correct it, made it better. I am getting there: learning, optimizing, creating new stuff. It is fun. And when I compile the code, it runs. If not, I debug. Unthinkable for me a year ago.