alt Hacker NewsA.I suffers from the last-mile problem. It can do 90% of the work in 20 minutes but then the remaining 10% ends up taking 20 million hours to actually finish. It frustrating to the point that I sometimes want to throw the whole thing out and start from scratch.
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kuboble • today at 9:32 AM
That has been my experience at the beginning, but not anymore.
I have developed some intuition of how large tasks I can give it so that it will complete them well, probably erring on the conservative side.
I am using it daily for all my code writing and honestly don't remember the last time I had the feeling that I had to spend a lot of work to get the last few % done.
Some people would argue that this is the best way to use AI as it exists today. Generate a POC and then if that POC makes sense, then rebuild it from scratch by hand. Maybe you can still use AI for a bit of boilerplate generation, but you should write all of the business logic and verify it by hand.
Personally, I'm starting to lean more and more towards this approach.
Though, I have to admit, for a well defined bug ticket, AI can be super useful to knock those out.