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laserlightyesterday at 3:15 PM1 replyview on HN

“You're holding it wrong.” is the most common response I get, when I talk about problems I had with LLM-assisted coding.


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leptonsyesterday at 6:13 PM

You aren't holding it wrong, the truth is AI is a mixed bag, leaning towards a liability.

If people really counted all the time they spend coddling the AI, trying again, then trying again and again and again to get a useful output, then having to clean up that output, they would see that the supposed efficiency gains are near zero if not negative. The only people it really helps are people who were not good at coding to begin with, and they will be the ones producing the absolute worst slop because they don't know the difference between good and bad code. AI is constantly trying to introduce bugs into my codebase, and I see it happening in real-time with AI code completion. So, no you aren't "holding it wrong", the other people are no different than the crypto-bro's who were pushing blockchain into everything and hoping it would stick.

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