I don’t know who needs to hear this, but people are expecting AI to boost productivity
Posted by MathematicianSome289@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 14 comments
What used to take hours now takes minutes. Entire features and their corresponding docs, tests, diagrams and user stories are a single prompt away. We’re going from idea to execution, all in natural language. People are noticing, and their expectations are changing accordingly.
woodwheellike@reddit
As another jackass posting about ai in this sub, delete this post…
lankybiker@reddit
There seems to be a whole cohort of developers who hate AI, down vote anything to do with it on dev subreddits.
I'm really not sure why but I couldn't disagree more. You might not like it, but it's already happened. Trying to pretend it isn't is going to get you left behind. I fully support op in making this post. AI is a new dev tool. It can make you massively more productive. That level of productivity is going to become the new norm.
If you're still hand coding boiler plate likes it's 2024 then you're going to start looking really damn slow.
Also, if/when you finally, through choice or not, end up having to use an AI tool, if you're starting from scratch and don't have experience in getting the best of them, you're also going to appear pretty crap.
If you submit broken code, you can't blame the AI, it's still your code. In my mind, learning how to ship robust code at AI pace is the new challenge and it's not easy at all
Shipping lots of code quickly with AI - easy, don't even need to be a dev
Shipping highly robust code - easy for an experienced dev, but it's going to take time
Hitting both of those, that's the sweet spot. Get good at that and you're on top the game.
The new game...
Pokeputin@reddit
People don't hate ai, people hate posts of 0 value that repeat the same shit 1000 times.
lankybiker@reddit
Some people hate hyperbolic aggressive and ignorant bullshit.
People like me
😘
woodwheellike@reddit
At no point in my reply did I say I don’t like AI coding tools.
I’m having subreddit exhaustion of AI posts.
It would be cool if someone had a post that included some new insights or features that are actually ground breaking from what we have now.
I use AI in my workflow all the time. What it is good at is cool, but it clearly has flaws which is fine. New technologies mature over time and ideally lose some of their rough parts.
But you are the exact guy I’m talking about. Full disclosure I didn’t waste the time to ready your entire comment. But the first bit was enough:
Ai WiLl RepLaCE EvRy ThNG
GeT Ur HeAd OuT oF tHe SaND!!!
Go F Off man, no one has time for vibe coding baby boys.
Embrace new technology, but also be critical of it as well
lankybiker@reddit
Sorry didn't read your comment just saw the mixed case kids stuff
mattgen88@reddit
AI is slowing me down. I keep trying things with AI that I can't do and then having to go and write scripts. E.g. transforming a whole bunch of json structures. It can do it, 1 line at fucking time and take a whole second per line.
Or it hallucinates methods on objects, so I struggle to get it to tab compete accurately.
It's so much slower than the old intellisense of my editor and less accurate.
I am not having a great time using AI.
PiciCiciPreferator@reddit
Is is the year of the Linux desktop yet?
pickledplumber@reddit
Sometimes the responses I get from AI are so dumb it may take me longer.
Fun-End-2947@reddit
Expectation is not reality
I've tried using GitLab over the last few days to try and improve productivity and it's "ok" for refactoring tasks that are relatively simple, or knocking up boiler plate code to customise but it's really nothing more than the same code available in the docs or what other productivity tools like Resharper can do
I was usually done with refactoring the code before it came back with a proper solution
Most of the time it's recommendations are entirely threadbare and nowhere near close to complete, so no wonder "vibe coders" are initially impressed but then hitting brick walls once they have something approaching a minimum viable product that is a security nightmare
I'm actually excited for 5 years time, when people like me are paid mega-money to go in and fix the mistakes that AI enabled vibe toddlers create for businesses
I reckon I can work for 3 months of the year on contract and partially retire
lankybiker@reddit
You're not wrong
It's an uncomfortable truth
But at least we're not in graphic design, oh boy
-Dargs@reddit
Grrr doom & gloom.
They took errr jerbsss
Jmc_da_boss@reddit
They are in for a rude awakening
smartgenius1@reddit
This is one of the major reasons why I'm trying to pivot out of this industry. It doesn't matter of AI can actually do the work, all that matters is that the people paying for the work to be done think it can.
I don't even know where to begin in negotiating anymore. When a manager expects something can be done with a prompt to an agent how am I supposed to counter that with a realistic estimate?