Comment by cwbriscoe
1 day ago
Error handling isn't even a pain to write any more with AI autocomplete which gets it right 95%+ of the time in my experience.
1 day ago
Error handling isn't even a pain to write any more with AI autocomplete which gets it right 95%+ of the time in my experience.
You're not wrong but... there is a large contingent of the Go community that has a rather strong reaction to AI/ML/LLM generated code at any level.
I keep using the analogy, that the tools are just nail guns for office workers but some people remain sticks in the mud.
Nail guns are great because they're instant and consistent. You point, you shoot, and you've unimpeachably bonded two bits of wood.
For non-trivial tasks, AI is neither of those. Anything you do with AI needs to be carefully reviewed to correct hallucinations and incorporate it into your mental model of the codebase. You point, you shoot, and that's just the first 10-20% of the effort you need to move past this piece of code. Some people like this tradeoff, and fair enough, but that's nothing like a nailgun.
For trivial tasks, AI is barely worth the effort of prompting. If I really hated typing `if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("doing x: %w", err) }` so much, I'd make it an editor snippet or macro.
> Nail guns are great because they're instant and consistent. You point, you shoot, and you've unimpeachably bonded two bits of wood.
You missed it.
If I give a random person off the street a nail gun, circular saw and a stack of wood are they going to do a better job building something than a carpenter with a hammer and hand saw?
> Anything you do with AI needs to be carefully reviewed
Yes, and so does a JR engineer, so do your peers, so do you. Are you not doing code reviews?
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> there is a large contingent of the Go community that has a rather strong reaction to AI/ML/LLM generated code at any level.
This Go community that you speak of isn't bothered by writing the boilerplate themselves in the first place, though. For everyone else the LLMs provide.