Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up

Re:Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up by captainkrtek on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @06:56PM (#45121255)

I do think the discovery piece is hugely valuable. I’m fairly capable with grep and ag, but asking Claude where something is in my codebase is very handy.

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Re:Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up by skydhash on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @07:44PM (#45121643)

I've always gone from entry point of the code (with a lot of assumptions) and then do a deep dive of one of the module or branches. After a while you develop an intuition where code may be (or follow the import/include statement).

I've explored code like FreeBSD, Busybox, Laravel, Gnome, Blender,... and it's quite easy to find you way around.

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Re:Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up by captainkrtek on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:12PM (#45121876)

Definitely, I’ve based a lot of my debugging on this. AI is just another tool in the toolbox for my searching, but usually not my first tool.

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