Cross posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35627632
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2024
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This is the experience of a senior developer using genai. A junior or non-dev might not leave the "AI is magic" high until they have a repo full of garbage that doesn't work.
This was happening before this “AI” craze.
10 years ago it was copy/pasting from stack overflow
SO gives you very specific, small examples. GenAI will happily generate entire projects, test suites etc. It's much easier to get caught into the fantasy that the latter creates.
AI is just this with extra steps