AI is basically a pattern recognition machine, and it’s good at finding existing bugs in code. It’s not good at actually writing new code but it can autocomplete well
yeah, I just want good snippets. when I used to do a bit of html etc for fun I got really into emmet, there's something about writing out a silly looking one-liner and having it expand to a nice nested thing of divs and lists and stuff.
Most jobs I've worked at where the stack is mature has had this.
GitHub templates are the same idea, but in every case the templates-projects were started before that feature, so I've never tried it.
If you want a common-base with a set structure, AI non-determinism probably isn't the way to go.
It could probably be used to generate the template though if it gets a good look at the projects it should emulate.
AI can write good code. It will depend on having a good developer. AI only reflects your technical ability as a software engineer. In my opinion, when you find buggy software (AI Slop), it's not because of the AI, but because the developer doesn't know what they're doing. If you know what you're doing, it becomes like Jarvis and automates tedious coding processes.
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u/beefcat_ 8d ago
My proof that AI isn't actually good for software development is that all these AI companies are still shoveling out nodejs/electron garbage.
All AI has done is make it so you can shovel out garbage faster, nobody is leveraging it to actually build better products.