Re:I think I'm done thinking about GenAI for now
by tuckerman on Thursday June 05, 2025 @02:20PM
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Not GP but
> I find this workflow makes my life extremely tedious, because reviewing and fixing whatever the machine produces is a slog for me
This is a matter of personal preference, but reviewing code (from humans) was already a huge chunk of my job and one that I enjoy. Now I can have a similar workflow for side projects, especially for things that I find less enjoyment in coding myself.
> Please don't tell me you just trust the AI to write automated tests or something...
Like most tools, the more I use LLMs for coding the more I get a feel for what its good at, what its okay at, and what it will just make a mess of. I find for changes like extending existing test coverage before refactoring, I can often just skim the output. For writing tests from whole cloth it requires a lot more attention (depending on the area). For non-test code, it very much depends on how novel the work is and how much context/many examples it has to go on.
> I find this workflow makes my life extremely tedious, because reviewing and fixing whatever the machine produces is a slog for me
This is a matter of personal preference, but reviewing code (from humans) was already a huge chunk of my job and one that I enjoy. Now I can have a similar workflow for side projects, especially for things that I find less enjoyment in coding myself.
> Please don't tell me you just trust the AI to write automated tests or something...
Like most tools, the more I use LLMs for coding the more I get a feel for what its good at, what its okay at, and what it will just make a mess of. I find for changes like extending existing test coverage before refactoring, I can often just skim the output. For writing tests from whole cloth it requires a lot more attention (depending on the area). For non-test code, it very much depends on how novel the work is and how much context/many examples it has to go on.