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Re:Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using... by trevor-e on Sunday February 02, 2025 @10:49PM (#42914748)
Because there are plenty of devs who take the output, actually read if it makes sense, do a code review, iterate back and forth with it a few times, and then finally check in the result. It's just a tool. Shitty devs will make shitty code regardless of the tool. And good devs are insanely productive with good tools. In your example what's the difference with that dev just copy/pasting from StackOverflow?
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Re:Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using... by DustinBrett on Sunday February 02, 2025 @11:44PM (#42915073)
Because on SO someone real wrote it with a real reason and logic. With AI we still need to double check that what we are giving ever made any sense. And SO also has votes to show the validty.

I agree if devs iterated over the results it could be good, but that has not been what I have been seeing.

It is not a traditional tool because tools we had in the past had expected results.

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Re:Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using... by eru on Sunday February 02, 2025 @11:26PM (#42914981)
Agreed!

To go off on a tangent: yes, good developers can produce good code faster. And bad developers can produce bad code faster (and perhaps slightly better than before, because the models are mostly a bit smarter than copy-and-paste is).

Everyone potentially benefits, but it won't suddenly turn all bad programmers into great programmers.

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