It would've like taken me a full day to fix without AI because I would have needed to understand things first
Quothling on Hacker News
AI writes a good 80% of my code these days
In the thread “Maybe the default settings are too high”, replying to this comment
Helped: Rewriting ancient, broken code that required extensive context understanding.
Got in the way: Output quality was not very good, though better than before.
… It took around 5 minutes out of my day, and most of those were having two people explaining to me where the code was and what they thought had happened to make it break. It would've like taken me a full day to fix without AI because I would have needed to understand things first, and because it was quite a lot of code. The result wasn't very good, but it was better than what was before, and since that had run for years without anyone tuching it, well... …