to my dismay they've been a pretty big boon for me, in this case
wk_end on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Helped: Probing the monolith and answering questions about how it works.
Got in the way: Code generation produces poor style and robustness requiring multiple passes.
… base isn't terrible - though not very good either, by-and-large - but it's absolutely massive, often over-engineered, pretty unorthodox, and definitely has some questionable design decisions; even after more than a year of working with it I still feel like a beginner much of the time. This year I grudgingly bit the bullet and began using AI tools, and to my dismay they've been a pretty big boon for me, in this case. Not just for code generation - they're really good at probing the monolith and answering questions I have about how it works. …