That's understandable, although AI may overuse the dash I think plenty of people use it too. I really like em dashes so I even have a macro for it on my keyboard.
I’m sure the people saying that just spend all day writing the exact same boilerplate. I’ve found AI has probably caused a 10x or more speed up in writing unit tests because once it recognises my pattern for writing them it starts spitting out code that’s pretty close to what I’d write anyway but if it’s business logic it fails pretty miserably. It really is great for doing the boring stuff but I don’t see how it’d result in 10x production overall, you should have abstractions in place to reduce the boilerplate you’d need to write anyway.
This is actually a huge point of contention for me. In discussions there's rarely any context about what kinds of software people are writing and how that influences their opinions about the usefulness of this or that tool.
I don't blame LLMs for this. I blame people. Read the code the LLM spat out. Review it. Understand it. Tweak it. Play with it. Use your mind.
The LLM can not reason for you. That's your job as a human being. You have the ability reason, problem solve, and think critically. If you are not doing that, then you are being lazy.
I love LLMs and theyve sucked me into the deep end of understanding bots and how they work from the ground up.
I've cracked open my maths and dsa books, I reference papers, I use my mind my reasoning, my critical thinking. I challenge these bots at every chance I get.
Following a bot blindly is a road towards disatisfaction at best and catastrophe at worst.
What is wrong with people? Think for yourself. Stop outsourcing your greatest assest as a programmer: Your ability to problem solve.
It's easy upvotes from the r/programming crowd of anti-AI sheep. I'm farming it just like they are 🫡 ...all while my LLM finishes off another task for me
terablast@reddit
Using an LLM to write an "article" about not using an LLM...
prodleni@reddit
What makes you think it was written by an LLM?
terablast@reddit
I'm a bit em-dash paranoid!
People — real people that is — don't actually use them.
prodleni@reddit
That's understandable, although AI may overuse the dash I think plenty of people use it too. I really like em dashes so I even have a macro for it on my keyboard.
Pristinefix@reddit
If you have to set up a macro to actually use it... How many people do you think use it?
prodleni@reddit
In quite a few settings, the
--gets rendered as an em dash too :)ahovdryk@reddit
I do.
looksLikeImOnTop@reddit
May just be an assumption since the website (zed.dev) is an AI company
prodleni@reddit
I mean not really? It's a text editor with some AI integration but it's not an "AI editor" like cursor
echocage@reddit
“I stopped using my iPhone months ago” Sent from my iPhone
chris84948@reddit
Where has this magic number of 10x as productive come from? I see people repeating that number and it just doesn't sound plausible? Am I the only one?
Potterrrrrrrr@reddit
I’m sure the people saying that just spend all day writing the exact same boilerplate. I’ve found AI has probably caused a 10x or more speed up in writing unit tests because once it recognises my pattern for writing them it starts spitting out code that’s pretty close to what I’d write anyway but if it’s business logic it fails pretty miserably. It really is great for doing the boring stuff but I don’t see how it’d result in 10x production overall, you should have abstractions in place to reduce the boilerplate you’d need to write anyway.
chris84948@reddit
That's my assumption too. I feel like most of my time is figuring out how to design something. The actual coding is pretty quick.
lmericle@reddit
This is actually a huge point of contention for me. In discussions there's rarely any context about what kinds of software people are writing and how that influences their opinions about the usefulness of this or that tool.
teleprint-me@reddit
I don't blame LLMs for this. I blame people. Read the code the LLM spat out. Review it. Understand it. Tweak it. Play with it. Use your mind.
The LLM can not reason for you. That's your job as a human being. You have the ability reason, problem solve, and think critically. If you are not doing that, then you are being lazy.
I love LLMs and theyve sucked me into the deep end of understanding bots and how they work from the ground up.
I've cracked open my maths and dsa books, I reference papers, I use my mind my reasoning, my critical thinking. I challenge these bots at every chance I get.
Following a bot blindly is a road towards disatisfaction at best and catastrophe at worst.
What is wrong with people? Think for yourself. Stop outsourcing your greatest assest as a programmer: Your ability to problem solve.
Cachesmr@reddit
Surprising post to have on the blog of an AI editor. I guess zed is the one that pushes it less compared to the others.
jewishobo@reddit
Zed ain't cursor for sure.
gametorch@reddit (OP)
It's easy upvotes from the r/programming crowd of anti-AI sheep. I'm farming it just like they are 🫡 ...all while my LLM finishes off another task for me