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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Stuff like this is really useful when variable names are annoying, or when you have to repeat the same monotonous pattern over a large batch of code.

My favorite use of AI in code so far has been refactoring deprecated feature flags. "Replace enableXYZFeatureFlag with true and optimize the code". Bam, 1-2 hours' worth of crunch work solved in minutes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it takes 1+ hours of work to remove a feature flag branch in an area of code, I wouldn't trust the correctness of anything the AI writes and would be super skeptical about anything the humans had written.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It takes a long time because it hits a lot of files, not because it's logically complex. Also, that's why unit and integration tests exist.