I've been impressed with the ability of these systems to, say, look at liquibase migrations and JooQ stubs and figure out what the CREATE TABLE must have been
PaulHoule on Hacker News
p=0.95 is not that bad but if N=20 we are looking at an 0.36 chance of success
In the thread “Why Text to SQL not going to work”
Helped: Making small changes to existing code bases and using unfamiliar features.
Got in the way: Complex tasks due to lack of testing and recovery infrastructure.
Lately I have been working with IDE-integrated assistants like Jetbrains and Windsurf whose claim to fame is that they can make little changes to existing code bases. I've been impressed with the ability of these systems to, say, look at liquibase migrations and JooQ stubs and figure out what the CREATE TABLE must have been, or help me use a feature in Postgres I'd never used before and then use it in JooQ. On the other hand, AI-assisted programming is a lot like working with a junior, there is a lot of "Dude, there's a red squiggle on line 92!" …