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  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    20 days ago

    I make it no secret that I am against the AI Hype train.

    I’m not a scientist either, and my opinions aren’t facts

    I think I’m just going to stop right there. I give them credit for honesty, But if you have to come right out and say everything you’re about to say is complete unverifiable bullshit, I have no reason to read it unless I’m in that echo chamber.

    If you get code from copilot, theres an above average chance it’s commented and commonly used.

    Does/did stack exchange improve code quality? Does anybody really care?

    • actually@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      stats published elsewhere show experienced programmers loose productivity using these new tools because they have to debug and fix things.

      I think such tools work better for inexperienced programmers who are making small code stuff, like school assignments and self teaching, or need a skeleton made to fill in later.

      The problem is that this is not where the big money is at, so a bubble and questionable actions have occurred trying to capitalize on it.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        20 days ago

        Our team isn’t using it to generate huge swaths of code, just boilerplates for tedious stuff.

        When I use it, I use it to crap out boilerplate stuff. Give me a flask app with these endoints, setup debug logging and give me jinga templates with these variables.

        I don’t need to write that code more times in my life :)