Article questioning the usefulness and legality of “the AI pair programmer”

  • Amju Wolf
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    11 months ago

    How would you even use it as a design tool? The ways it can actually help you I’d doing menial stuff but you already more or less have to know what you want. It certainly isn’t doing any of the “hard” work for you.

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      11 months ago

      You can write comments for the needed design/flow of giving blocks. It’ll do its best to fill in something that’ll mirror your description. Then you get to fix what it generated.

      I find it more successful as a really advanced autocomplete.

    • 0ops@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      I’ve actually had decent luck with it for big-picture questions. Like, “How do I go about accomplishing this, with this, given this?” It might list a few options, so when before I didn’t have a clue, now I have some ideas and can ask/Google the questions that I didn’t even know I didn’t have before. Of course, you’ve gotta use due diligence, don’t just take its word for it.

      Sometimes even when I don’t get a good answer from it, it still breaks me out of the mind block I’m in, so I guess it’s helped me indirectly that way.

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        11 months ago

        Oh yeah, absolutely, it’s great to get pointers in (usually) the right direction. But you’d still be hard pressed to execute on that fully including all the intermediary steps and (more importantly) solving for all edge cases and whatnot.

        As a tool it’s definitely invaluable.