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Do you guys use AI when programming? If so, how? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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If so, I'd like to know about that questions:

Do you use an code autocomplete AI or type in a chat?
Do you consider environment damage that use of AIs can cause?
What type of AI do you use?
Usually, what do you ask AIs to do?

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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 7 points 4 days ago

I use Copilot with mostly Claude Sonnet 4.5. Don’t use the autocomplete because it’s useless and annoying. I mostly chat with it, give it specific instructions for how to implement small changes, carefully review its code, make it fix anything I don’t like, then have it write test scripts with curl calling APIs and other methods to exercise the system in a staging environment and output data so I can manually verify it and make sure all of its changes are working as expected in case I overlooked something in the automated tests.

As far as environmental impact, training is where most of the impact occurs, and inference, RAG, querying vector databases, etc. is fairly minimal AFAIK.