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New comment by 7589447636 in "The hidden cost of AI coding"

7589447636 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:26:43 +0000

How long until it becomes the rule because of some arbitrary "productivity" metric? Sure, you may not be forced to use it, but you'll be fire for being "unproductive".

New comment by 7589447636 in "The hidden cost of AI coding"

7589447636 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:21:03 +0000

> Now, I wonder if I am just totally unable to write/refine good prompts for the LLM (as it works for smaller samples, I hope I am not too far off) or what could explain the huge discrepancy of experience.

Programming language / stack plays plays a big role, I presume.

New comment by 7589447636 in "The hidden cost of AI coding"

7589447636 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:12:47 +0000

> It is a stubborn refusal to see that one could be programming something much more sophisticated if they could use these iteration loops efficiently

Programming something more sophisticated with AI? AI is pretty much useless if you're doing anything somewhat novel. What it excels at is vomiting code that has already been written a million times so you can build yet another Electron cross-platform app.