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0 pointsandrewstuart2mo ago0 comments

Only someone who doesn’t use it could say that.

Yesterday in 3 hours I built a fully working golang program that captures all browser network traffic from chrome and Firefox and filters and logs it with a TUI and includes a wide range of help and checks and fine tuning and environment config and command line options. Multiple cycles of debugging and problem solving and refinement until it was finished.

That is simply not possible to do by hand.

And if you don’t believe this, you think I’m exaggerating, then yeah you’re being left behind while the industry moves forward.

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ErroneousBosh2mo ago

I've tried using it. I can't get it to do anything useful.

I wanted to get it to help write a very simple Django website, basically a phone directory thing. After dicking about trying to get Copilot to actually help I had about 5000 lines of code that didn't work.

I was able to write something that did work in about an hour and about 50 lines of code.

Do you actually understand how the program your AI created works?

andrewstuartOP2mo ago

>> Do you actually understand how the program your AI created works?

Of course yes I designed and architected it.

>> I've tried using it. I can't get it to do anything useful

Look I really don’t want this to come across as mean or snarky, but you can’t be trying very hard if you haven’t explored the unbelievable power of Claude ChatGPT and Gemini. Or worse if you have, but couldn’t work out how to get them to do anything useful. Id encourage you to go try them and give them all a real go and invest some time learning how to get the best from them.

ErroneousBosh2mo ago

I've tried it a few times. It took generally ten times as long to come up with code that I could have written more clearly by myself.

Can you give me an example of the kind of things you ask it to do, and the results you get?

I genuinely don't understand why people think it's good. I don't want to waste time trying to work out how to ask a computer to write code for me, when I could just be writing code.

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0 pointsandrewstuart2mo ago0 comments

Only someone who doesn’t use it could say that.

That is simply not possible to do by hand.

And if you don’t believe this, you think I’m exaggerating, then yeah you’re being left behind while the industry moves forward.

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ErroneousBosh2mo ago

I've tried using it. I can't get it to do anything useful.

I was able to write something that did work in about an hour and about 50 lines of code.

Do you actually understand how the program your AI created works?

andrewstuartOP2mo ago

>> Do you actually understand how the program your AI created works?

Of course yes I designed and architected it.

>> I've tried using it. I can't get it to do anything useful

ErroneousBosh2mo ago

I've tried it a few times. It took generally ten times as long to come up with code that I could have written more clearly by myself.

Can you give me an example of the kind of things you ask it to do, and the results you get?

I genuinely don't understand why people think it's good. I don't want to waste time trying to work out how to ask a computer to write code for me, when I could just be writing code.

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