Mixed
For anything larger or more important, its inconsistencies make it a net time loser, imo
skywhopper on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Helped: Planning steps in advance and providing explicit specs for new, small projects.
Got in the way: Wild inconsistency between sessions and inability to handle larger, important codebases reliably.
… Or new, small projects where you can get away with never reading the code. For anything larger or more important, its inconsistencies make it a net time loser, imo. Sure, let it write an annoying utility function for you, but don’t just let it loose on your code. …