• _cnt0@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    As an experienced software dev I’m convinced my software quality has improved by using AI.

    Then your software quality was extreme shit before. It’s still shit, but an improvement. So, yay “AI”, I guess?

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      8 hours ago

      That seems like just wishful thinking on your part, or maybe you haven’t learned how to use these tools properly.

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        8 hours ago

        Na, the tools suck. I’m not using a rubber hammer to get woodscrews into concrete and I’m not using “AI” for something that requires a brain. I’ve looked at “AI” suggestions for coding and it was >95% garbage. If “AI” makes someone a better coder it tells more about that someone than “AI”.

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          8 hours ago

          Then try writing the code yourself and ask ChatGPT’s o3-mini-high to critique your code (be sure to explain the context).

          Or ask it to produce unit tests - even if they’re not perfect from the get go I promise you will save time by having a starting skeleton.

          Another thing I often use it for is ad hoc transformations. For example I wanted to generate constants for all the SQLSTATE codes in the PostgreSQL documentation. I just pasted the table directly from the documentation and got symbolic constants with the appropriate values and with documentation comments.