Comment by dzonga
1 year ago
for people using these AI products for coding what exactly are you doing ?
general API plumbing ? call this api, combine the json results & spit it out. Then slap a React / Next.js frontend ?
lately, I have been doing your classical business apps - due to the domain rules - ai is pretty useless - but I have found perplexity and deep mind to be smarter stack overflows. that's it.
personally I use it as a glorified stack overflow. It really just saves me a few clicks on my browser.
For anything even remotely complex or involved, it's just not that useful. Interestingly, It seems to shine the most when doing boilerplate stuff in widely used languages such as python or javascript, but it's extremely bad with terraform.
Its very smart templates imo.
Its basically more time-consuming for me to get it to where I want the code than finish it myself. For some scaffolding in python green-field development, sure I save a few minutes.
I tell it the function name, input, output, and an LLM writes the function for me. I prefer to keep an eye on the architectural decisions myself.