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Comment by vbezhenar

10 hours ago

AI not just types code for you. It can assist with almost every part of software development. Design, bug hunting, code review, prototyping, testing.

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NilMostChill  6 hours ago

A Luddite farm worker can assist in all those things, the question is, can it assist in a useful manner?

  • kjksf  4 hours ago

    Not only it can but it does.

    Just as I was reading this claude implemented a drag&drop of images out of SumatraPDF.

    I asked:

    > implement dragging out images; if we initiate drag action and the element under cursor is an image, allow dragging out the image and dropping on other applications

    then it didn't quite work:

    I'm testing it by trying to drop on a web application that accepts dropped images from file system but it doesn't work for that

    Here's the result: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/commit/58d9a4...

    It took me less than 15 mins, with testing.

    Now you tell me:

    1. Can a farm worker do that?

    2. Can you improve this code in a meaningful way? If you were doing a code review, what would you ask to be changed?

    3. How long would it take you to type this code?

    Here's what I think: No. No. Much longer.