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"Working with Gen AI" by Dandytoon (dandkim.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cross posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35627632

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is the experience of a senior developer using genai. A junior or non-dev might not leave the "AI is magic" high until they have a repo full of garbage that doesn't work.

[–] jaybone 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This was happening before this “AI” craze.

[–] criss_cross 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

10 years ago it was copy/pasting from stack overflow

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

SO gives you very specific, small examples. GenAI will happily generate entire projects, test suites etc. It's much easier to get caught into the fantasy that the latter creates.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

AI is just this with extra steps