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Do you guys use AI when programming? If so, how? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week 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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[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As for actual coding, I use ChatGPT sometimes to write SDK glue boilerplate or learn about API semantics. For this kind of stuff it can be much more productive than scanning API docs trying to piece together how to write something simple. Like for example, writing a function to check if an S3 bucket is publicly accessible. That would have taken me a lot longer without ChatGPT.

Sometimes I'll use it for ideas on how to write specific SQL queries, but I've found you have to be extremely careful with this use case because ChatGPT hallucinates some pretty bad SQL sometimes.