We all know that trying to get non-pozzed responses to anything involving hot button political/social topics from Big Tech trained AI models is a fool's errand, but I'm wondering if anyone has found them to be of any use when it comes to programming. Despite what a number of my professors say, some of whom are definitely not diversity hires, I haven't found them to be of any use. Maybe it's because I'm only asking hard or niche questions when I can't find the answer elsewhere, but I haven't gotten any help from the bots in my programming tasks. The last time I tried it invented modules to a package out of thin air. Had those modules actually existed I wouldn't have needed to ask the question to begin with. From what I've seen the most it can do is help pajeets cheat in their programming 101 classes. Has anyone here had a different experience?
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I work professionally in a shop that’s making use of amazons AI tool.
I’m seeing the same things you are. The code it spits out, while eerily identical to my style/naming conventions is almost always worthless about 80% of the time. Either generating a simplistic solution that doesn’t actually do what I need, creating module/function names out of thin air (surprised me the first time I saw that - “whoa - I didn’t know that library could do that, excellent… that makes this task a lot easier and… oh… it doesn’t…”), or writing one line of code that saves me all of 5 seconds.
Where it works for me is for simple, grunt tasks like writing a switch statement to transform an object. Or for when I have coders block or a function I don’t want to have to write it can sometimes spit out some code that gets me far enough along I can complete the task. IF it’s simple enough. If you’re doing asynchronous call handling forget it!