AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects

Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by PragmaticPulp on Friday March 31, 2023 @11:11AM (#35388292)

> What I really love is the unbounded optimism of the AI. How many colleagues could you ask "Can you write me a PoC for a horizontally scalable, probabilistic database in Rust, using Raft-based consensus?" that would then just think for a second and go "Certainly! Let's start by ..."

I agree about the unbounded optimism. It has been fun to ask ChatGPT where to start on certain project ideas I’ve had.

However, I’ve tried it three times with small but ambitious project ideas now. Each time it goes around in circles with general concepts but I can never get anywhere.

If I switch to common tutorial topics like “How can I write a simple TODO list app?” it performs surprisingly well.

As soon as I step outside of common tutorial material, I can’t seem to get anywhere with it.

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Re:AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my p... by sharemywin on Friday March 31, 2023 @11:24AM (#35388497)

and or there's a library to do XYZ. and you just want to know how to use it. or what library is available to do xyz.

I also use it to tell what the weird error text means given this snippet of code.

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