alt Hacker NewsBecause its failure rate is too high. Beyond boilerplate code and CRUD apps, if I let AI run freely on the projects I maintain, I spend more time fixing its changes than if I just did it myself. It hallucinates functionally, it designs itself into corners, it does not follow my instructions, it writes too much code for simple features.
It’s fine at replacing what stack overflow did nearly a decade ago, but that isn’t really an improvement from my baseline.
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That's my experience too. It's okay at a few things that save me some typing, but it isn't really going to do the hard work for me. I also still need to spend significant amounts of time figuring out what it did wrong and correcting it. And that's frustrating. I don't make those mistakes, and I really dislike being led down bad paths. If "code smells" are bad, then "AI" is a rotting corpse.
It’s not that it just makes mistakes but it also implements things in ways I don’t like or are not relevant to the business requirements or scope of the feature / project.
I end up replacing any saved time with QA and code review and I really don’t see how that’s going to change.
In my mind I see Claude as a better search engine that understands code well enough to find answers and gain understanding faster. That’s about it.