Comment by assimpleaspossi
8 hours ago
>>I get that we live in an era where the machine writes most/all of the code
Only on the Internet is this true, not in real life. I cannot and do not trust any of these things to do a proper job because they have not in any situation succeeded in any job I've given them. And no company I deal with claims otherwise
Right I feel like they just got to a point where they can reliably write individual functions with direction. Every time I've tried to use them consistently I feel like I just end up spinning wheels from them doing things that mostly work until it crashes and burns or just has straight up missing things or half truths. Skill issue or not it doesn't work for me.
Still glad I basically never have to debug a build issue or memory error again though
If the Code is bad, you can tell it to fix it to match your expectations —only at the edges, are you going to have to spell it out.
Lack of documentation used to be a running joke.
The goose_spec.txt in 2019 would be "goose is like c and rust only with syntax like array{;}[] btw it uses a small amount of stacks instead of malloc."0 10klocs.
Now, we make sure the AI leaves documentation so it can figure out what it was doing earlier.
A local model a few generations and many weights behind newest Claude can implement my novel algorithms and write the documentation I wouldn't.
Yes, many times it does dumb CS for kindergarten mistakes but it only has to work towards the optimum every once in a while.
That's like me with violins!
Maybe violins don't write good code after all?
it's definitely true in real life. i think there is actually a massive skill gap in using them effectively.
I can see that you only work with true scotsmen, but the machine really does write most of the code now, at least from a pure numbers perspective.