▲ 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
[–] Asetru@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) What about just reading the documentation? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Even with amazing documentation, it can be hard to find the thing you're looking for if you don't know the right phrasing or terminology yet. It's easily the most usable thing I've seen come out of "AI", which makes sense. Using a Language Model to parse language is a very literal application. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Asetru@feddit.org 1 point 2 years ago The person I replied to was talking about learning the basics of a language... This isn't about searching for something specific, this is about reading the very basic introduction to a language before trying to Google your way through it. Avoiding the basic documentation is always a bad idea. Replacing it with the LLMed version of the original documentation probably even more so. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Even with amazing documentation, it can be hard to find the thing you're looking for if you don't know the right phrasing or terminology yet. It's easily the most usable thing I've seen come out of "AI", which makes sense. Using a Language Model to parse language is a very literal application. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Asetru@feddit.org 1 point 2 years ago The person I replied to was talking about learning the basics of a language... This isn't about searching for something specific, this is about reading the very basic introduction to a language before trying to Google your way through it. Avoiding the basic documentation is always a bad idea. Replacing it with the LLMed version of the original documentation probably even more so. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Asetru@feddit.org 1 point 2 years ago The person I replied to was talking about learning the basics of a language... This isn't about searching for something specific, this is about reading the very basic introduction to a language before trying to Google your way through it. Avoiding the basic documentation is always a bad idea. Replacing it with the LLMed version of the original documentation probably even more so. permalink fedilink source parent