Comment by sky2224

> Over the past six months I tried using Claude, chatgpt, Grok and Gemini. At best I got reminders of how things worked. People online say they use them to write their code. The code they supplied to me has NEVER worked or was so convoluted that I threw it away and did it myself.

I've been finding AI either works great for people or is just awful, and I'm having a hard time pinpointing where the problem is. I don't think there's a big intelligence gap between us, so it's not like others wouldn't be noticing the things you're claiming when using AI. I genuinely believe your experience has been bad, but the part I'm trying to figure out is why it's been bad.

So my questions are: have you given things a fair shot? Have you tried turning things on its side to see if approaching AI usage a different way results in significantly better and more useful results? Do you actually put thought into what you're writing in your prompts (i.e., if I took your prompt and gave it to a junior dev, would they know what to do)? Are you just using the free models available online or do you have a dedicated integration into your development environment through Github Copilot or other vendor(s)?

I mean what I'm about to say with zero offense, but this honestly reminds me of how the elderly generation says, "technology doesn't work for me because it's always broken", and when you go and try to coach them on how to use the technology that's problematic for them, it's as if you're casting black magic.

I don't think AI is the second coming of Christ or that we're anywhere near AGI, but I do believe it's an extremely useful tool that people should be using.