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by PeterStuer 61 days ago
"AI is synonym of wanting to cut corners, poor quality, and to put it simply, slop"

A craftsman knows how to use his tools. You can with AI produce very complete, polished, maintainable and tested, secure, performant high quality code.

It does take planning and lots of work on your part, but there is a high payoff.

So many people just dump a one paragraph brainfart into a prompt and then label the AI "slop".

Slop in , slop out. Play silly games, win stupid prizes. Don't blame your tools. Sometimes, you are 'holding it wrong'.
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em-bee 60 days ago
It does take planning and lots of work on your part, but there is a high payoff.

less hard work than writing code myself? a higher payoff than the satisfaction of having written code myself?

i want to be a coder, not a prompt manager. (not sure i want to call that engineer)

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qsera 60 days ago
>people just dump a one paragraph

So how much is enough?

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