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Yes but I’ve seen some devs waste a lot of time using AI to build something that was a bad idea to begin with. Without AI they might have first spent more time

• petesergeant 2mo ago
  > Without AI they might have first spent more time validating the idea was worth it. Seems optimistic
• marssaxman 2mo ago
  For me it is exactly the opposite. AI makes it so easy to create test fixtures and run experiments that I now spend much more time validating ideas than I could ever afford to do before. When I write code for production, it's not "this ought to work", it's "here are the figures showing how well this works, on this dataset", where the dataset is also much larger than anything I would have used before, because I used AI to generate the tools which collected and organized it.
  • skydhash 2mo ago
    > it's not "this ought to work", it's "here are the figures showing how well this works, on this dataset" The thing with constraints is that you focus of the thing with high value first. So you focus on the most promising ideas first or choose experiments that can get rid of most ideas. Instead of trying to validate each ideas and generate what is most likely noise to the decision process. Like if I ever hire an assistant, I want like one to three options that are closely aligned to my needs, not a bible size report on 42 choices.
• rayiner 2mo ago
  Isn’t it better to be able to quickly test ideas and see what works and what doesn’t?