Comment by codr7
2 months ago
But this is how you learn, how you find better ways, by grinding.
Getting wild ideas badly implemented on a silver plate is a slot machine, it leads nowhere but in circles.
2 months ago
But this is how you learn, how you find better ways, by grinding.
Getting wild ideas badly implemented on a silver plate is a slot machine, it leads nowhere but in circles.
When I say ideas i'm talking in the context of programming... I'm not talking about "I got a great idea for a new social network" and the AI just wrote some spaghetti code for it. When I have the AI write low level code it's stuff like filling out a function implementation of which I already defined high level type classes for... I can focus on high level abstractions, whereas the AI can iterate in the most statistically sensible way to fill in the easy blanks.
By grinding what though? I don't wanna grind "Entering characters with my fingers", I wanna grind "Does this design work for getting X to work as I want", which is exactly the sort of things LLMs help me move faster on.
And yes, if you're just using it as a slot machine, I understand it doesn't feel useful. But I don't think that's how most people use it, at least that's not how I use it.
To be fair, I think a lot of people are in fact using it like a slot machine, which is where a lot of the "AI doesn't help me code" perspectives are coming from.
i've done 20 years of grinding thanks. im happy to work at a higher level of abstraction now.