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1. brink · 1791054618 · focus · HN ↗

   I also have found that AI has not lived up to many of its promises and have dialed back what AI gets control of. My projects were turning into unmaintainable messes. The people who say coding is solved aren't paying attention.

   1. lucianmarin · 1791055784 · focus · HN ↗

      Yes. I started two projects with AI from scratch. Both abandoned, complete mess. Projects without AI are so easy to manage, maintain, add/remove features, etc. I use AI as a search engine on my projects instead of Google. I ask what's wrong with my code and change or improve it myself based on my experience.

      1. rickydroll · 1791092022 · focus · HN ↗

         I've had a different experience. My code is better. The ease of refactoring and practicing very defensive programming without getting burned out from the repetitive boilerplate. It all comes together better than it did when I was programming professionally too many moons ago. IFF I don't let the LLM toddler run amok. :-)

         Seriously, I find I need to slow down the rate of change. I don't move forward until I understand the change proposed and have updated the docs. At the same time, I find that keeping up with the LLM/agent is exhausting. 3 hours with an LLM leaves me as tired as 6 hours with a keyboard had previously. I find that coding when tired or fuzzy yields code that shouldn't have been written in the first place. Sadly, once it's been written and debugged, the temporary fix becomes permanent.

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