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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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[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mostly use it as a code search tool, when dealing with large projects that I'm not very familiar with. Like I can ask "where is this component actually inserted into the web page" and it can sometimes point to a file and function. It doesn't always work of course, but when it does it can save a lot of time.

I don't ever let AI write code for me though

[–] CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can't you use global search for that? I mean I do that too but using global search functionallity is way faster and guaranteed.

You can also use grep command to search occurrences inside files based in a string/regex

[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Of course, but this assumes I know roughly what the text will look like that I'm searching for. If I already know what it will look like, I'll use global search of course, but if all I know is that "at some point this element is put into the document" then I have no idea how that might actually happen. AI is just pretty good (ie succeeds sometimes) at generalising my words into a rough idea and searching for that.