I’m curious, how much are people using AI in your development process? Are you using it to debug chunks of code, are you using it to brainstorm plots or text or dialogue, are you explaining functions and asking AI to “vibe-code” your solution? Are you developing art because of your lack of art skill…

I’ve found AI to be incredibly useful for getting things done that otherwise would not get done. For instance, an important-but-not-vital feature was blocked by the need to do a huge refactor - to replace a complex runtime system with thousands of lines of source generators, producing tens of thous…

[image] Tara McGrew: I like programming. I’ve been doing it for fun since I was 4 years old, and as a career for decades. But it turns out I also like sketching out plans for programming, watching someone something implement those plans and kibitzing while they do it, and having a finished produ…

Surely side effects outweighing the benefits counts as one of the ways in which a technology can “fail”?

I use LLMs to learn and to organize my chaotic thoughts and plans. I take pleasure in doing things manually, even of typing in code. For the most part, I treated all the code help that I got from LLMs as type-in programming tutorials. I didn’t let it go and take the results. I didn’t even skim the c…

[image] Bainespal: Yet I feel a need to become truly fluent in code Agentic coding is like functional steam punk. Take your example and the regular expressions, the first one in particular that limits your code to either 2 or 4 digits, either 2 digits or 4 digits where the first 2 are 19 or 2…

[image] duodave: I’m curious, how much are people using AI in your development process? This is what we’re talking about, right? If not, can we fork it? I’m sure it’s an entirely worthwhile topic, but it isn’t what’s printed on the tin. Edit-to-add: Thank you!

Looks like I may be in the minority, but I fully embrace AI - but with caution and control (more on this below). First some background on me: I am a 30+ years-of-experience engineer/engineering leader at a very large tech company very involved in the behind-the-cloud AI revolution. AI is here to sta…

[image] pinkunz: This is what we’re talking about, right? If not, can we fork it? I’m sure it’s an entirely worthwhile topic, but it isn’t what’s printed on the tin. I agree - I’m very interested in people’s thoughts and attempts at this, and would love to see it in it own topic.

Good morning from Germany! I don’t do anything any longer without the aid of AI - it’s not that I let AI do all my work, its more that I am no longer a “lone worker”, but like the head of a group of people working for me - with me myself responsible for the final result, but not for the tedious wor…

For me personally, I don’t use AI because I want to be the one to create everything I work on. I dislike delegating and am ambivalent about working on a collaboration, so why would it be any different when using generative AI? Admittedly, it’s 100% a control thing, but I also have another reason why…

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