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I've seen a few articles saying that instead of hating AI, the real quiet programmers young and old are loving it and have a renewed sense of purpose coding with llm helpers (this article was also hating on ed zitiron, which makes sense why it would).

Is this total bullshit? I have to admit, even though it makes me ill, I've used llms a few times to help me learn simple code syntax quickly (im and absolute noob who's wanted my whole life to learn code but cant grasp it very well). But yes, a lot of time its wrong.

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[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes.

Use Claude Sonnet 4

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

I sometime describe it as an intern. Its useful but many of the things its useful for replicates things that addons in the ide did anyway. Its also handy for web searches to be a bit quicker. Ultimately I don't see it going away.

[–] jasory@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not a software dev but rather a mathematical researcher. I see zero use for myself or designing any advanced or critical systems. LLM coding is like relying on stack overflow, if you want to solve a novel or sophisticated problem relying on them is the wrong approach.

[–] AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm a full stack web dev. I use it for HTML and CSS (sometimes) else it's a big waste of time trying to get working modern PHP and JS out of it. Least that's been my experience

[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 0 points 1 month ago

I do and it’s great for small tasks. Wouldn’t trust it on an existing code base or more than a hundred lines of code.

I always review what it does and often cherry pick stuff

The only thing I vibe code are small websites / front ends because fuck HTML,CSS,JS

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm okay with AI-powered autocomplete, or with AI-powered mock project generator. Anything beyond that seems like the management's misguided attempt at ~~having more meetings~~raising productivity.

I'm not using AI, and I rarely use IDE, because ugh, code editor is not fullscreen, and I don't need a separate panel to navigate project tree and edit makefiles, I can perfectly use the shell for that, and I don't even need to wiggle the mouse like some graphics designer to debug my code.

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[–] patrick@lemmy.bestiver.se -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] hono4kami@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Not sure why you're sharing this. This is one of the worst blog post I've read this year. The amount of name calling is unnecessary, childish. It's just not good.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Programmers are promoted to architects who write high-level specs with a subordinate to do the leg work (AI). I think the hate is because not everyone is good at planning and some people are better at perfecting implementation details, and AI isn't helpful there.

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