Yeah, I think it’s weird how people need to think in such a binary manner. AI sucks in almost every way and it can also save you time as a quick auto complete in an IDE. You’d have to be an idiot to have it write big blocks of code you don’t understand. That’s on you if you do it. If you want to use it to improve productivity, you should just let it write a few lines here and there which otherwise costs you several seconds if you didn’t. When it comes to refactoring, I’ve found GitHub copilot helps a lot because what I’m doing is changing from one common pattern to another, probably even more common pattern. It’s predictable, so it usually gets it fairly right.
If it were really artificially intelligent you could just describe a program and in seconds get a nearly bug-free, productiom-ready app. That’s a LONG way off, if it ever happens. People treating LLMs like they are actually AI is the issue. Stop misusing the tool.
Yeah, I think it’s weird how people need to think in such a binary manner. AI sucks in almost every way and it can also save you time as a quick auto complete in an IDE. You’d have to be an idiot to have it write big blocks of code you don’t understand. That’s on you if you do it. If you want to use it to improve productivity, you should just let it write a few lines here and there which otherwise costs you several seconds if you didn’t. When it comes to refactoring, I’ve found GitHub copilot helps a lot because what I’m doing is changing from one common pattern to another, probably even more common pattern. It’s predictable, so it usually gets it fairly right.
If it were really artificially intelligent you could just describe a program and in seconds get a nearly bug-free, productiom-ready app. That’s a LONG way off, if it ever happens. People treating LLMs like they are actually AI is the issue. Stop misusing the tool.
Use judgement, people.