AI Didn't Make Programming Easier. It Just Made It Differently Difficult
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-didnt-make-programming-easier-it-just-made-it-differently-difficult/
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-didnt-make-programming-easier-it-just-made-it-differently-difficult/
5 Comments
disorderly@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 25d
It certainly means I get to review a lot of code that the author doesn't understand. That alone makes me wish we could put the cat back in the bag.
username_1@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 25d
It did. I spend magnitudes less time browsing docs and can concentrate on actual programming. LLMs are very nice at searching docs for something you are not sure that even exists.
reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 25d
Except when the bot tells you it exists, but it doesn’t. This can be managed with some prompt-fu, but it’s still annoying sometimes.
username_1@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 25d
Still better than looking for it manually. Checking results is easier than doing the search manually. Manual search is especially fun if you don't know the terminology.
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 25d
I use quite a few niche libraries and the hallucination rate is unacceptably high.
I find it works for popular libraries though.