[grahac]

Agreed although AIs today with simple project based rules can do things like check and account for error cases, and write the appropriate unit tests for those error cases.

I personally have found I can often create equivalent code in less English than typing.

Also it works very well where the scope is well defined like implementing interfaces or porting a library from one language to another.

[daxfohl]

Yeah, I guess it depends how much you care about the details. Sometimes you just want a thing to get done, and there are billions of acceptable ways to do it, so whatever GPT spits out is within the realm of good enough. Sometimes you want finer control, and in those cases trying to use AI exclusively is going to take longer than writing code.

Not much different from image generation really. Sometimes AI is fine, but there's always going to be a need to drop down into photoshop when you really care about some detail. Even if you could do the same thing thing with very detailed AI prompts and some trial and error, doing the thing in photoshop will be easier.