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Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants (www.cio.com)
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[–] 93 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For me, it is a glorified auto-complete function. Could definitely live without it.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Same for me, but that glorified auto complete helps a lot.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hell yea. Our unit test coverage went way up because you can blow through test creation in second. I had a large complicated migration from one data set to another with specific mutations based on weird rules and GPT got me 80% of the way there and with a little nudging basically got it perfect. Code that would've taken a few hours took about 6 prompts. If I'm curious about a new library I can get a working example right away to see how everything fits together. When these articles say there's no benefit I feel people aren't using these tools or don't know how to use them effectively.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, it's useful, you just gotta keep it on a short leash, which is difficult when you don't know what you're doing

    Basically, it's a useful tool for experienced developers that know what to look out for

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    We always have to ask what language is it auto-completing for? If it is a strictly typed language, then existing tooling is already doing everything possible and I see no need for additional improvement. If it is non-strictly typed language, then I can see how it can get a little more helpful, but without knowledge of actual context I am not sure if it can get a lot more accurate.

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