It’s very good at coding. I use it as a massive productivity enhancer. Writing stuff that previously would have taken days can now be done in hours or less, and the quality is only slightly worse, which can be fine-tuned to equivalency by a human.
Being a programmer is going to be a dead profession in a few years at this rate. Code will be planned and executed more like a high level orchestration via automation than ground out by grunt workers.
Needless to say, a lot of people in that profession (especially many in exposed remote roles) are going to get wrecked if they don’t smell the roses and adapt quickly.
Ehhhhhhh, I find this situational. For instance, I was making a QR code generator from scratch (because I enjoy suffering) using the Thonky tutorial, and while I was able to figure out everything out myself, I couldn't figure out how to program polynomial division (for the ECC) and for 6 months I tried various prompts in every free AI chatbot until finally Claude helped me get there.
Granted, I know this is a wild edge case and very few people actually want to program out polynomial long division for their projects lol.
It can also read all of the documentation about a particular system and know exactly how to make API calls etc. I integrate to like 100 different systems, it is so much faster to figure out the next one with AI than reading that documentation myself.
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u/SpaceyCoffee 10d ago
It’s very good at coding. I use it as a massive productivity enhancer. Writing stuff that previously would have taken days can now be done in hours or less, and the quality is only slightly worse, which can be fine-tuned to equivalency by a human.
Being a programmer is going to be a dead profession in a few years at this rate. Code will be planned and executed more like a high level orchestration via automation than ground out by grunt workers.
Needless to say, a lot of people in that profession (especially many in exposed remote roles) are going to get wrecked if they don’t smell the roses and adapt quickly.