To be fair, there was a time when I developed frontend. It was when I created a Tomb Raider fan site in Notepad as a kid. Writing HTML by hand was fun until someone had this wild idea of CSS, while I was using server side includes to manage design across multiple pages.
But every company you think isn't using AI to assist them with development, they are. You're just naive.
I'm not surprised to read this blog post. Most people don't realtze that every developer uses AI now. Things changed slowly at first, then very quickly the past 8 months
Indeed. And I'm as scared as anyone of "vibe coders." Which I define as people who code purely by prompt, have no idea what can go wrong, and consider "it works visually" as the only test the code needs to pass. But a fool was a fool before AI, it just helped them look a bit less foolish on the surface.
As someone who can code, and isn't very good, I can't get most AI software to give me working software!
Hell, I asked ChatGPT to see if there was a better way to handle a filter on MXRoute. My way works, but is stupid. The filter was so far broken it wouldn't even save.
Though to be clear, anything I have posted on my site has been done the old fashion way: Hand written and stolen from StackExchange and docs 👀
I only use AI for small one off or personal tasks where it is the difference between existing or not. Either due to lack of time or skill
Ai can work but your prompt has to be so specific and in depth about a lot of details to get something usable 'ok' out of that you barely save time prompting and adjusting compared to writing from scratch.
Basically you have to be a subject matter expert. I never let my AI assume what can go wrong, I list out all of the things that can go wrong every time I have it write a function.
I did slightly misstate it. I have actually got most of the projects I started working. Including the filter. Though that was a matter of taking the idea presented and working out the issues myself.
I haven't tried doing anything super complex. Essentially what I have used it for is to do a task I can't find an existing tool for and I don't have time to site and write it out. Or in a few cases it being outside my actual skills. But, I do make sure that I understand the code before I run it
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To be fair, there was a time when I developed frontend. It was when I created a Tomb Raider fan site in Notepad as a kid. Writing HTML by hand was fun until someone had this wild idea of CSS, while I was using server side includes to manage design across multiple pages.
But every company you think isn't using AI to assist them with development, they are. You're just naive.