• Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      531·
      6 days ago

      Really shows the difference between the “I like problem solving” crowd and the “I like shiny tech and everyone said this would make money” crowd.

        • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          155·
          5 days ago

          I’d say I actually fall in that camp. Right now I’m trying to set up an open source AI assistant that’s like, a little dumb but can still help me while I’m coding.

          My ideal relationship with AI is this image:

      • aksdb@lemmy.world
        53·
        5 days ago

        But the shiny tech makes problem solving so much easier … for me. I can now much more easily solve problems on a wider scale. Many problems I solve are sprinkled with side tasks that don’t have directly to do with the problem but are in my way to get to the solution. Those things have cost me a big amount of time in the past and just bothered me (because I needed to deep dive into something that wasn’t what I wanted to work at). Now an agent deals with these pesky things much faster and I just have to clean up, while keeping my focus on the actual thing I wanted to solve.

        • Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          6·
          5 days ago

          You and I have a similar workflow. One thing AI solved for me is not having to hunt obscure specific documentation or wade through unhelpful forums. It also helps make a test script for when I want to see if something’s working without another 20 minute sidequest.

          I’m mainly referring to the people who want the AI to do all the work, which has unfortunately become a common expectation lately. Some people want to feel like programmers without ever reading or writing any of the raw code.

          • Mirror Giraffe@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            Whenever our legacy react native apps need to bump due to Google SDK increase I let Claude hunt down the correct dependencies and get it to a working state for me to iron out the quirks. Before it took me a week sometimes, now a day.

            Not too mention it’s so extremely boring.

    • brsrklf@jlai.lu
      291·
      6 days ago

      Yeah. Every now and then there’s a misguided artist spewing shit like “engineers” or “programmers” are all out to get them because they love AI so much.

      Fuck that, I do love my job, I hate both AI “art” and “code”, and I know plenty others.

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      12·
      5 days ago

      As someone within this field, yup, lmfao

      Me and all of my friends within compsci are all “yeah but I love my job” and they all talk about their co-workers who seem to hate programing and problem solving

      And unfortunately it’s really starting to seem like I have to start using LLMs as part of my job to keep up, and it’s so sad