[xeromal]

Yup, I've already run like 6 of my personal projects including 1 for my wife that I had lost interest in. For a few dollars, these are now actually running and being used by my family. These tools are a great enabler for people like me. lol

I used to complain when my friends and family gave me ideas for something they wanted or needed help with because I was just too tired to do it after a day's work. Now I can sit next to them and we can pair program an entire idea in an evening.

[Micheasherman]

If it is 20% slower for you to write with AI, but you are not stressed out and enjoy it so you actually code then the AI is a win and you are more productive with it.

I think that's what is missing from the conversation. It doesn't make developers faster, nor better, but it can automate what some devs detest and feel burned out having to write and for those devs it is a big win.

If you can productively code 40 hours a week with AI and only 30 hours a week without AI then the AI doesn't have to be as good, just close to as good.

[xeromal]

I'm in agreeance with you 100%. A lot of my job is coming into projects that have been running already and having to understand how the code was written, the patterns, and everything else. Generating a project with an LLM feels like doing the same thing. It's not going to be a perfect code base but it's enough.

Last night I was working on trying to find a correlation between some malicious users we had found and information we could glean from our internet traffic and I was able to crunch a ton of data automatically without having to do it myself. I had a hunch but it made it verifiable and then I was able to use the queries it had used to verify myself. Saved me probably 4 or 5 hours and I was able to wash the dishes.