Four months ago I asked if and how people used AI here in this community (https://lemmy.world/post/37760851).

Many people said that didn’t use it, or used only for consulting a few times.

But in those 4 months AIs evolved a lot, so I wonder, is there people who still don’t use AI daily for programming?

  • KissYagni@programming.dev
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    10 hours ago

    I use AI for small, atomic, stuff that don’t bring any intellectual value to spend time for.

    Like “Typescrit. Find smallest element in an array”. “Python. Simulate keboard event to avoid computer going to sleep mode”. Or copy/past error message because I missed an import and I just want to know which one.

    I also use it sometime for well identified algorithm that could be interesting but are not the core of the problem. Like “C#. Clustering algorithm to group points together in a point cloud”.

    The generated code is catastrophic in term of performances/memory, but it’s good enough 80% of the time.

    But eveytime I tried to use AI for higher level stuff, or that require several interdependant concepts, it ended up into hallucination pit.

    • I have this problem
    • Cool ! Use solution A !
    • Doesn’t work
    • My Bad, use solution B !
    • Doesn’t exist
    • Indeed ! For this problem you should apply method A which will work !
    • (-_-)’