@raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
Post #39905
2025-12-07 22:30 UTC
Replies (6)
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@Randelung@lemmy.world 2025-12-07 23:06
Maybe they’ll listen to one of their own?
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@InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2025-12-07 23:31
And then there are actual good developers who could or would tell you that LLMs can be useful for coding, in the right context and if used intelligently. No harm, for example, in having LLMs build out some of your more mundane code like unit/integration tests, have it help you update your deployment pipeline, generate boilerplate code that’s not already covered by your framework, etc. That it’s not able to completely write 100% of your codebase perfectly from the get-go does not mean it’s entirely useless.
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@khepri@lemmy.world 2025-12-08 00:10
They are useful for doing the kind of boilerplate boring stuff that any good dev should have largely optimized and automated already. If it’s 1) dead simple and 2) extremely common, then yeah an LLM can code for you, but ask yourself why you don’t have a time-saving solution for those common tasks already in place? As with anything LLM, it’s decent at replicating how humans in general have responded to a given problem, if the problem is not too complex and not too rare, and not much else.
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@psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2025-12-08 00:27
I can least kinda appreciate this guy’s approach. If we assume that AI is a magic bullet, then it’s not crazy to assume we, the existing programmers, would resist it just to save our own jobs. Or we’d complain because it doesn’t do things our way, but we’re the old way and this is the new way. So maybe we’re just being whiny and can be ignored. So he tested it to see for himself, and what he found was that he agreed with us, that it’s not worth it. Ignoring experts is annoying, but doing some of your own science and getting first-hand experience isn’t always a bad idea.
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@jali67@lemmy.zip 2025-12-08 00:29
Don’t worry. The people on LinkedIn and tech executives tell us it will transform anything soon!
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@ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-08 01:46
I really have not found AI to be useless for coding. I have found it extremely useful and it has saved me hundreds of hours. It is not without its faults or frustrations, but the it really is a tool I would not want to be without.