Comment by epihelix
20 hours ago
I think the trick is to learn exactly what things AI can give a 100x speed boost with, and use it for those tasks, and only those.
The tasks where there's little-to-no speed boost at all -- do those yourself. You'll feel better and happier.
The best thing is you'll have much more time to work on those things now, because AI is doing all the stupid/boring/dumb/mundane/I-hate-this-so-much/I-don't-ever-want-to-think-about-this tasks for you, the ones that normally make your brain dribble out your earholes.
Good points.
First use of AI code generation only recently - I think the key is to throw away code until you can one-shot the app. You wouldn't employ a dentist and tell them half-way through what they must do next.
That's just my first impression.
Interestingly, I started with Gemini and switched to ChatGPT using the initial creativity of Gemini as the starting point.
So like search results, why go to page 7 if you can just retry/rewrite repeatedly and never move passed page 1 because at one point, you'll find the right page at the top. As they say "too many cooks spoil the broth" so just get the menu selection right and the perfect meal will be delivered, and if it's not, don't send it back, throw it away and reorder! The cook won't care - it's a robot - no feelings.
If you can't one-shot it, or almost one-shot it - then you f##### up, not it.