Mixed
Current generation AIs are writing tactical code absolutely brilliantly (often better than my own code), but often making very odd strategic decisions
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20 minutes to do what would have taken me a couple of hours
In the thread “If AI is helping people code better, why aren't products getting better?”
Helped: Tactical code generation and solving obscure library problems.
Got in the way: Strategic thinking and functional decomposition.
… But certainly not worse code. Current generation AIs are writing tactical code absolutely brilliantly (often better than my own code), but often making very odd strategic decisions (functionally decomposing code in odd ways, for example). But, the rate of change in this area is breathtaking. …