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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. cyanydeez · 1791118666 · focus · HN ↗

         I've adopted open source projects and have been working exclusively in languages I have very little experience with: typescript and go.

         I'm using local models, and they go slow enough that I have no trouble following along with what they're doing; but visually, both go and typescript, along with react native, make me puke. So I wouldn't be able to do this without AI.

         I describe how to do it in my comment history, but it's basically a Super-TDD along with some custom engineering harness.

         I don't want to say skill issue, but the same way you can give a chain saw to a teenager and one to a skill craftsman, well, AI can obviously create whatever you want it to do.

         I think some of the variety is simply how fast SOTA models pump out garbage that you simply have to close your eyes because it's not sensible to just watch characters flow across the screen.

         Almost all the coding I'm doing via AI is just faster than readable. But I can see the thinking traces and I stop to model when it's obvious it doesn't understand my intent, etc.

         So I'm not doubting you created garbage. I'm just doubting that it's a product of soley AI use.

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