No
it's frustratingly difficult to use as a precision tool
hakfoo on Hacker News
In the thread “AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why”
Helped: Trivial demos with vague goals like building API clients.
Got in the way: Precision tasks requiring specific changes and understanding misdocumented code.
My two cents: My experience with AI is that it's workable for "approximate" things, but it's frustratingly difficult to use as a precision tool. It works great for the trivial demos, where you say "here's an API, build a client" without significant constraints, because that use case is a pretty wide, vague goal. …