[artursapek]

I’ve used it greenfield and with existing indebted codebases and it’s remarkably good at both. You have to give it a good amount of context but that goes for a human worker too. I think devs who get bad results from AI generally prefer to be the ones coding and not managing and maybe take their own context for granted.

[ajaksbsbzjz]

Most of my time spent coding is understanding and growing my context. By the time I’ve done that, writing the code is an afterthought. It takes longer to communicate this via prompt than to write the code myself.

I’ve heavily benefited from AI when I’m inexperienced or willing to trust the AI. The devs I’ve seen happy with AI either fit that use case or are subpar devs who don’t really understand what they’re doing. I have multiple coworkers who are the latter - code works for their single happy path and they’re on to the next thing.