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I wonder what would happen if I'd enable them all at the same time.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't use chat, as it never really have been more than a digital rubber ducky for me.

And it's not really generating lots of code. Most of the time it's just generating constructors/factory functions, or something easy like summing a vector of integers.

My philosophy is that my brain comes first, if the AI did what I was thinking of, then press tab. I ain't debugging a AI made function for two hours when I can make it in an hour

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's the same way for me. I don't know if my work is this trivial or I'm just "good enough" at it, but it takes me much longer to prompt the chat to get what I want than it takes me to just write it myself.

I honestly kinda feel like I'm using this ai stuff wrong, but outside of generating some basic unit tests and a little better auto complete it feels kinda useless in my day to day work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. It's really just """smarter""" auto complete. Quite good at pattern completion like simple constructors or switch cases with one change.

I get the same feeling of using it wrong, but I mostly think it's AI bros chilling the tech too much. Or that I am a boomer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well I hope it's ai bros haha.

I kinda feel sad about this whole ai tooling. For me programming was always more like art. But this gets lost now with all the ai stuff.

I sound like an old man yelling at clouds.