Comment by Gigachad
18 hours ago
Yeah that’s been my experience. The generators are shockingly good. But they don’t get it all the way, and then you are left looking at a mountain of code you don’t understand. And by the time you do, you could have just built it yourself.
Yeah, but you can ask ai questions about it so you can understand it faster
Works great if you’re using a very common language. I wasted more time than I care to admit trying this with a pascal code base.
You are absolutely right.
> you are left looking at a mountain of code you don’t understand. And by the time you do, you could have just built it yourself.
SWEs that do not have (or develop) this skill (to fill-in the 10% that doesn’t work and fully understand the 90% that works and very, very quickly) will be plumbers in a few years if not earlier.