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by true2octave 177 days ago
Many have the attitude of finding one edge case that it doesn’t work well and dismiss AI as useful tool

I’m an early adopter and nowadays all I do is to co-write context documents so that my assistant can generate the code I need

AI gives you an approximated answer, it depends on you how to steer it to a good enough answer and this takes time and learning curve … and evolves really fast

Some people are just not good at constantly learning things

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> Many have the attitude of finding one edge case that it doesn’t work well and dismiss AI as useful tool

Many programmers work on problems (nearly) *all day* where AI does not work well.

> AI gives you an approximated answer, it depends on you how to steer it to a good enough answer

Many programmers work on problem where correctness is of essential importance, i.e. if a code block is "semi-right" it is of no use - and even having to deal with code blocks where you cannot trust that the respective programmer did think deeply about such questions is a huge time sink.

> Some people are just not good at constantly learning things

Rather: some people are just not good at constantly looking beyond their programming bubble where AI might have some use.