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

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Explain this too me AI. Reads back exactly what's on the screen including comments somehow with more words but less information Ok....

Ok, this is tricky. AI, can you do this refactoring so I don't have to keep track of everything. No... Thats all wrong... Yeah I know it's complicated, that's why I wanted it refactored. No you can't do that... fuck now I can either toss all your changes and do it myself or spend the next 3 hours rewriting it.

Yeah I struggle to find how anyone finds this garbage useful.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have asked questions, had conversations for company and generated images for role playing with AI.

I've been happy with it, so far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's kind of outside the software development discussion but glad you're enjoying it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a developer

I can jot down a bunch of notes and have ai turn it into a reasonable presentation or documentation or proposal
zoom has an ai agent which is pretty good about summarizing a meeting. It usually just needs minor corrections and you can send it out much faster than taking notes
for coding I mostly use ai like autocomplete. Sometimes it’s able to autocomplete entire code blocks
for something new I might have ai generate a class or something, and use it as a first draft where I then make it work

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I’ve had success with:

dumping email threads into it to generate user stories,
generating requirements documentation templates so that everyone has to fill out the exact details needed to make the project a success
generating quick one-off scripts
suggesting a consistent way to refactor a block of code (I’m not crazy enough to let it actually do all the refactoring)
summarize the work done for a slide deck and generate appropriate infographics

Essentially, all the stuff that I’d need to review anyway, but use of AI means that actually generating the content can be done in a consistent manner that I don’t have to think about. I don’t let it create anything, just transform things in blocks that I can quickly review for correctness and appropriateness. Kind of like getting a junior programmer to do something for me.

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