Problem is, programmers don't want AI. We want better tools that address the issues of complexity and abstract requirements management.
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024
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Problem is, programmers don't want AI.
I wish it was that simple! This is, understandably, the most unpopular post in the community. But I looked around in other websites and saw plenty of programmers quite into LLM tooling. In Zed's repository, you can easily find many users looking forward to more AI features, and even outright requesting them.
Programmers are too diverse a group to generalize like this.
As someone who doesn’t like AI-based auto-complete but will happily use AI occasionally to ask questions every now and then, it looks like these guys might be on to something.
I’m not using Zed yet, but this is giving me some incentive to try it out.
I was sceptical at first too, but the way they're not just adding another chatbot, that it is basically a LLM request composing tool is really interesting. Its not trying to hide what an LLM is behind some obscure personality interface, its a text processing tool foremost. I like it!