• DarkMessiah@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, the best use for AI in coding thus far is to point you in the right direction as to what to look up, not how to actually do it.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I find it works really well for brainstorming and “rubber-ducking” when I’m thinking about approaches to something. Things I’d normally do in a conversation with a coworker when I really am looking more for a listener than for actual feedback.

      I can also usually get useful code out of it that would otherwise be tedious or fiddly to write myself. Things like “take this big enum and write a function that converts the members to human-friendly strings.”

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      1 year ago

      I’ve found it’s best use to me as a glorified auto-complete. It knows pretty well what I want to type before I get a chance to type it. Yes, I don’t trust stuff it comes up with on its own though, then I need to Google it

    • PrMinisterGR@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      All the hype are grifters and Google trying to convince people this isn’t just a search engine assistant.

      • criticalimpact@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Well we need something now that google is absolute dogshit at providing useful results XD Maybe not AI though