[yoyohello13]

There are many time when I’ll mull over a problem in my head at night or in the shower. I kind of “write the code” in my head. I find it very useful sometimes. I don’t think it would be possible if I didn’t have the language constructs ingrained in my head.

[Jonovono]

I find it do this more now with AI than before.

[yoyohello13]

What do you mean? Are you working on more projects, or more engaged in ideation? Not sure how AI would cause you to write code in your head more while away from the computer. Most people seem to have a harder time writing code without AI the more they use it. The whole “copilot pause” phenomenon, etc.

[Jonovono]

Since my job now is primarily a reviewer of (AI) code I find:

1) I'm able to work on more projects

2) The things I am able to work on are much larger in scope and ambition

3) I like to mentally build the idea in my head so I have something to review the generated code against. Either to guide the model in the direction I am thinking or get surprised and learn about alternate approaches.

It's also like you say, in the process, a lot more iterative and ideation is able to happen with Ai. So early on i'll ask it for examples in x language using y approach. I'll sit on that for a night and throw around tangentially related approaches in my head and then riff on what I came up with the next day

[bluefirebrand]

Do you? Or do you spend more time thinking about how to write prompts?

[Jonovono]

My prompts are very lazy, off the cuff. Maybe I would see better gains if I spent some time on them, not sure.