Beyond the 70%: Maximizing the human 30% of AI-assisted coding

Re:Beyond the 70%: Maximizing the human 30% of AI-assisted c... by nfRfqX5n on Friday March 14, 2025 @09:24AM (#43362430)

there is this weird addictive thing with AI coding. found myself just sending prompts over and over and hoping the next one would finally get it right. sending a prompt and going and doing something else, but mostly end up with a huge mess

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Re:Beyond the 70%: Maximizing the human 30% of AI-assisted c... by 4b11b4 on Friday March 14, 2025 @10:52AM (#43363184)

Your prompts aren't good enough. Imagine you're writing to another person, you need to give them good context or else you wouldn't expect much from them either.

edit: sometimes I also find myself in this state. Lately, instead of grinding on some obscure piece of code (or engineering problem in general) in between my dreams, I'll be... churning on it in English, and even dreaming up the response.. this goes on in cycles.

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Re:Beyond the 70%: Maximizing the human 30% of AI-assisted c... by dingnuts on Friday March 14, 2025 @09:28AM (#43362464)

it's the slot machine effect, plain and simple.

it's even worse if you're paying for tokens because there's a sunk cost! it feels like if you just tweak the prompt a little and put in another quarter and pull the lever again, this time it'll put out a totally correct result

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