• Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Really shows the difference between the “I like problem solving” crowd and the “I like shiny tech and everyone said this would make money” crowd.

    • aksdb@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      But the shiny tech makes problem solving so much easier … for me. I can now much more easily solve problems on a wider scale. Many problems I solve are sprinkled with side tasks that don’t have directly to do with the problem but are in my way to get to the solution. Those things have cost me a big amount of time in the past and just bothered me (because I needed to deep dive into something that wasn’t what I wanted to work at). Now an agent deals with these pesky things much faster and I just have to clean up, while keeping my focus on the actual thing I wanted to solve.

      • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 days ago

        You and I have a similar workflow. One thing AI solved for me is not having to hunt obscure specific documentation or wade through unhelpful forums. It also helps make a test script for when I want to see if something’s working without another 20 minute sidequest.

        I’m mainly referring to the people who want the AI to do all the work, which has unfortunately become a common expectation lately. Some people want to feel like programmers without ever reading or writing any of the raw code.

        • Mirror Giraffe@piefed.socialEnglish
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          15 hours ago

          Whenever our legacy react native apps need to bump due to Google SDK increase I let Claude hunt down the correct dependencies and get it to a working state for me to iron out the quirks. Before it took me a week sometimes, now a day.

          Not too mention it’s so extremely boring.

      • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 days ago

        I’d say I actually fall in that camp. Right now I’m trying to set up an open source AI assistant that’s like, a little dumb but can still help me while I’m coding.

        My ideal relationship with AI is this image: