• Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Good. There’s a lot of non-programmers who are now bad ones and are using AI to make their ideas real. It’s made programming way more accessible to people who would never learn before.

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      2 months ago

      I got back into programming because I can ask an Ai my stupid questions I’m too dumb to google correctly. I haven’t otherwise wrote code since college and kinda revived a long dead hobby. It removes a barrier to entry that I otherwise gave up on. Been working on a project to teach myself python the last few months, with Ai replacing the roll of google for the most part.

      Copy-pasting Ai code still blows up in your face just as much as code you stole from stack overflow…

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        2 months ago

        I wouldn’t say you’re dumb when it comes to Google. Their search is just a broken mess of dog shit now.

      • chakan2@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        No…stack I can usually figure out from the context of questions what went wrong. AI will very confidently and eloquently give you a very subtle bullshit answer.

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        2 months ago

        Copy-pasting Ai code still blows up in your face just as much as code you stole from stack overflow…

        Show me difference:

        They are the same.

      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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        The issue isn’t you doing your hobby projects however you want, it’s people being paid and produce LLM generated code.

        And the biggest issue is managers/c-suites thinking that LLMs can replace senior devs.

        And the biggest biggest issue is that the LLMs in their current mainstream form are terribly bad for the environment.

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          2 months ago

          Why wouldn’t you use AI as a shortcut if you can? Can you actually replace senior devs with AI? I’m sure that depends on the company and what they consider a “senior dev”. Maybe there’s some not-so-senior senior devs that should be worried.

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        2 months ago

        Learning how to do research is a big part of being an engineer. You should be able to either find an answer, or build your own. Being told how to do something is not learning.

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      2 months ago

      Can confirm. Using AI for coding for a couple of months now. There sure is a lot of copy and paste, trail and error, but without the assistance I would not have been able to enhance and customize code like that. Now I am some steps further and was even able to question the AI output, correct it, made it better. I am getting there: learning, optimizing, creating new stuff. It is fun. And when I compile the code, it runs. If not, I debug. Unthinkable for me a year ago.