▲ 374 ▼ Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants (www.cio.com) submitted 2 years ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 123 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago (1 child) Same for me, but that glorified auto complete helps a lot. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago From the combined comments it looks like if you are a beginner or a pro then it's great; if you only have just enough knowledge to be dangerous (in german that's proverbial "gefährliches Halbwissen") you should probably stay away from it :-) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago From the combined comments it looks like if you are a beginner or a pro then it's great; if you only have just enough knowledge to be dangerous (in german that's proverbial "gefährliches Halbwissen") you should probably stay away from it :-) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago From the combined comments it looks like if you are a beginner or a pro then it's great; if you only have just enough knowledge to be dangerous (in german that's proverbial "gefährliches Halbwissen") you should probably stay away from it :-) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago From the combined comments it looks like if you are a beginner or a pro then it's great; if you only have just enough knowledge to be dangerous (in german that's proverbial "gefährliches Halbwissen") you should probably stay away from it :-) permalink fedilink source parent