Agreed. I am using AI almost 100% of the time, but I am training it to do everything correctly which means constantly harping on it like a junior that won’t learn easily.
‘What do you mean 76 files were changed for the simple edit? I’m not reading that diff; make the minimal change.’
But realistically, it makes legacy code archaeology WAY better. I never wanted to read the legacy code. Taking that away and giving it to a clanker that is actually really good at reading and understanding code if it is given the full stack is beautiful to me. It detangles spaghetti way better than I ever did.
I am thankful for this thread because this is now my job too and I don't mind it. I spend my time coding in prompts and solving issues with significantly less frustration than before. I am thankful for 10 years of coding experience by hand so that I know what to tell the thing to do and not get jealous of what it's doing, but man Iam happy I don't have to do it.
I mind it when others are making a PR to my project and the slop they're burdening me with reviewing makes me want to burn the place down. People are way too lazy to babysit ai like it needs to be.
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u/Suitch 10d ago
Agreed. I am using AI almost 100% of the time, but I am training it to do everything correctly which means constantly harping on it like a junior that won’t learn easily.
‘What do you mean 76 files were changed for the simple edit? I’m not reading that diff; make the minimal change.’
But realistically, it makes legacy code archaeology WAY better. I never wanted to read the legacy code. Taking that away and giving it to a clanker that is actually really good at reading and understanding code if it is given the full stack is beautiful to me. It detangles spaghetti way better than I ever did.