Comment by skydhash
3 days ago
> Personal experience (data points count = 1), as a somewhat seasoned dev (>30yrs of coding), it makes me WAY faster.
> Long story short: things that would take me a week to put together now take a couple of hours. The vast bulk of the time saved is not having to identify the libraries I need, and not to have to rummage through API documentation.
One of these is not true.
With libraries, it's either you HAVE to use it, so you spend time being acquainted with it (usually a couple hours to make sense of its design, the rest will come on a needed basis) or you are evaluating multiple ones (and that task is much quicker).
> you are evaluating multiple ones (and that task is much quicker).
Of course the latter. And of course I ask the AI to help me select a libray/module/project/whatever that provides what I need. And I ask the AI to classify them by popularity/robustness. And then I apply whatever little/much I know about the space to refine the choice.
may go as far as looking at examples that use the API. And maybe rummage through the code being the API to see if I like what I see.
The whole thing is altogether still way faster than having to pick what I need by hand with my rather limited data ingestion capabilities.
And then, once I've picked one, connecting to the API's is a no-brainer with an LLM, goes super fast.
Altogether major time saved.