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Re:The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of wo... by jonstewart on Thursday September 18, 2025 @01:26PM (#45292435)
The thing I am calling BS on is that there's much productivity gain in giving it very small tasks and constantly steering its direction. For 80% of code, I'm faster than it if that's what I have to do. For debugging? For telling it to integrate a new tool? Port my legacy build system to something better? It's great at that, removes some important barriers to entry.
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Re:The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of wo... by rmunn on Friday September 19, 2025 @12:52AM (#45298070)
Bingo. All my experience is on Linux, and I've never written anything for Windows. So recently when I needed to port a small C program to Windows, I told ChatGPT "Hey, port this to Windows for me". I wouldn't trust the result, I'd rewrite it myself, but it let me find out which Win32 API functions I'd be calling, and why I'd be calling them, faster than searching MSDN would have done.
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