In my domain (signal processing, high load systems, embedded development, backend in Go) it doesn’t do great for coding tasks
blks on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Helped: Overviews, architecture suggestions, repetitive edits, summarizing diffs, and creating script skeletons.
Got in the way: Creating proper applications, handling recent Go versions, and mass edits due to bugs.
… Summarising diffs in openapi, highlighting bugs and patterns in logs, documents also works pretty okay. In my domain (signal processing, high load systems, embedded development, backend in Go) it doesn’t do great for coding tasks, and I’m very opposed to giving it lead to create files, do mass edits, et cetera. I found it to fail even on recent versions of Go, imagining interfaces, not knowing changes in some library interfaces (pre-2024 changes at least). …