Comment by kennywinker
3 days ago
Like if it generalizes to situations where the developer is not familiar with the repo? That doesn’t seem like generalizing, that seems like specifying. Am I wrong in saying that the majority of developer time is spent in repos that they’re familiar with? Every job and project I’ve worked has been on a fixed set of repos the entire time. If AI is only helpful for the first week or two on a project, that’s not very many cases it’s useful for.
I'd say I write the majority of my code in areas I'm familiar with, but spend the majority of my _time_ on sections I'm not familiar with, and ai helps a lot more with the latter than the former. I've always felt my coding life is speeding through a hundred lines of easy code then getting stuck on the 101st. Then as I get more experienced that hundred becomes 150, then 200, but always speeding through the easy part until I have to learn something new.
So I never feel like I'm getting any faster. 90% of my time is still spent in frustration, even when I'm producing twice the code at higher quality