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AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds
(www.reuters.com)
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Experienced software developer, here. "AI" is useful to me in some contexts. Specifically when I want to scaffold out a completely new application (so I'm not worried about clobbering existing code) and I don't want to do it by hand, it saves me time.
And... that's about it. It sucks at code review, and will break shit in your repo if you let it.
I have limited AI experience, but so far that's what it means to me as well: helpful in very limited circumstances.
Mostly, I find it useful for "speaking new languages" - if I try to use AI to "help" with the stuff I have been doing daily for the past 20 years? Yeah, it's just slowing me down.
I like the saying that LLMs are “good” at stuff you don’t know. That’s about it.
When you know the subject it stops being much useful because you’ll already know the very obvious stuff that LLM could help you.
FreedomAdvocate is right, IMO the best use case of ai is things you have an understanding of, but need some assistance. You need to understand enough to catch atleast impactful errors by the llm
Like search engines, and libraries...
and the only reason it's not slowing you down on other things is that you don't know enough about those other things to recognize all the stuff you need to fix