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AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds (www.reuters.com)

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Just the other day I wasted 3 min trying to get AI to sort 8 lines alphabetically.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I had to sort over 100 lines of data hardcoded into source (don’t ask) and it was a quick function in my IDE.

I feel like “sort” is common enough everywhere that AI should quickly identify the right Google results, and it shouldn’t take 3 min

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

By having it write a quick function to do so or to sort them alphabetically within the chat? Because I've used GPT to write boilerplate and/or basic functions for random tasks like this numerous times without issue. But expecting it to sort a block of text for you is not what LLMs are really built for.

That being said, I agree that expecting AI to write complex and/or long-form code is a fool's hope. It's good for basic tasks to save time and that's about it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I’ve actually had a fair bit of success getting GitHub Copilot do things like this. Heck I even got it to do some matrix transformations of vectors in a JSON file.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The tool I use can rewrite code given basic commands. Other times I might say, "Write a comment above each line" or "Propose better names for these variables" and it does a decent job.

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