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by layer8 604 days ago
You generally don’t write those by hand though.

I’m pretty sure around 50% of the code I write is already auto-complete, without any AI.

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Exactly, you write them with AI
IDEs have been auto completing braces, inserting imports and generating framework boilerplate for decades.

We don’t need AI for this and it’s 10x the compute to do it slower with AI.

LLMs are useful but they aren’t a silver bullet. We don’t need to replace everything with it just because.

Yeah, but the management achievement is to call 'autocomplete' AI.

AI doesn't mean LLM after all. AI means 'a computer thing'.

I’ve been calling if-statements AI since before I graduated college
Simply strech your definition of AI and voilá, you are writing it with AI.
The most important thing is to put out a press release about how half your code is written by AI.