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Ignoring lemmyhate, are programmers really using AI to be more efficient? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/programming@programming.dev
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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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[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. But I'm not paying for premium like some of my cowokres. I use it to avoid the grunt work, and to avoid things I know I'd have to google.

I used some coworkers account for a while and auto complete is amazing. I it guesses wrong you just keep tipping as usual. If its right, hit tab and saves you like 20 seconds.

On the other hand I have cokowkers that do not check the chatgpt output and the PRs make no sense. Example: instead of making a variable type any (which is forbidden in our codebase) they did

Let a : date|number|string|object|(...) = fetchData()