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Or they'll take a look at what, if anything at all,they can use in their workflow as a useful tool not a magic solution. No need to brag about that.

• dwroberts 7mo ago
  > can use in their workflow as a useful tool not a magic solution. Like what? If you can already program your game and create art for it, what is it going to be doing? People are so obsessed with using AI stuff for the sake of it, it’s nuts
  • segh 7mo ago
    I can do long division manually but I still reach for a calculator.
    • dwroberts 7mo ago
      Do you also spend a lot of time maximising calculator utilisation in other places? Maybe trying to write letters with it or composing music with it?
      • hjkl0 7mo ago
        Won’t you get much better results trying to maximize utilization of some sort of LLM? For many people, you’d get faster and better results trying to optimize for LLMs than for any standard word processor or music composition tool.
    • _zagj 7mo ago
      > but I still reach for a calculator Does the calculator give you a slightly different answer each time, even with the same inputs?
  • rhdunn 7mo ago
    I don't use AI for the sake of it, I use it where and when it is useful. For example: 1. advanced autocomplete -- if you have or paste the structure of a JSON or other format, or a class fields, it is good at autocompleting things like serialization, case statements, or other repetitive/boilerplate code; 2. questions -- it can often be difficult to find an answer on Google/etc. (esp. if you don't know exactly what you are looking for, or if Google decides to ignore a key term such as the programming language), but can be better via an AI. Like all tools, you need to read, check, and verify its output.
    • bandrami 7mo ago
      Genuine question re #1: does your text editor not already do that?
      • socalgal2 7mo ago
        Without ai my text editor auto completes letters into existing identifiers or adds a closing brace With ai it add several lines of code at once as soon as it thinks it recognizes a common pattern. It’s not perfect and it can get in the way but it’s amazing when it guesses right and spits out the next 3-4 lines I would have typed
        • bandrami 7mo ago
          I'm trying to think of a text editor that doesn't support customizable snippets and templates, and failing
          • ses1984 7mo ago
            Those two things aren’t the same at all, they’re so different it’s hard to believe you’re not being intentionally obtuse.
            • bandrami 7mo ago
              I mean, in the sense that customizable snippets are more flexible and can cover a wider variety of use-cases, I guess?
        • bluefirebrand 7mo ago
          Personally I find this workflow is jarring. I get into flow typing code and then the AI autocompletes the next four lines on a tab input. Now my flow is screeching to a halt because I have to switch from flow mode to review mode to make sure it actually autocompleted what I wanted
      • rhdunn 7mo ago
  • Cthulhu_ 7mo ago
    Speaking for myself (who can program and all that), AI solves some of the tedium in my day job (building UI components). Most of that work nowadays is boilerplate. But at the moment it's also helping me solve more complex issues with building applications - it's JS, so you can imagine how complex it can be. I yearn for a simpler workflow to be honest, I don't want to rely on SO or LLMs to solve build issues. I want to work in Go but there's only a handful of companies using it in my country, plus my CV basically says I mainly did front-end in the past ~15 years.
  • truetraveller 7mo ago
    "People are so obsessed with using AI stuff for the sake of it, it’s nuts". This is a GREAT observation. Thank you!
• tumdum_ 7mo ago
  They don’t seem to enthusiastic: https://bsky.app/profile/noelfb.bsky.social/post/3maa3m5x4vs2u https://bsky.app/profile/noelfb.bsky.social/post/3maa3m5x4vs...