Comment by TheCapeGreek
Comment by TheCapeGreek 4 days ago
I always hear this "writing code isn't the bottleneck" used when talking about AI, as if there are chosen few engineers who only work on completely new and abstract domains that require a PhD and 20 years of experience that an LLM can not fathom.
Yes, you're right, AI cannot be a senior engineer with you. It can take a lot of the grunt work away though, which is still part of the job for many devs at all skill levels. Or it's useful for technologies you're not as well versed in. Or simply an inertia breaker if you're not feeling very motivated for getting to work.
Find what it's good for in your workflows and try it for that.
I feel like everyone praising AI is a webdev with extremely predictable problems that are almost entirely boilerplate.
I've tried throwing LLMs at every part of the work I do and it's been entirely useless at everything beyond explaining new libraries or being a search engine. Any time it tries to write any code at all it's been entirely useless.
But then I see so many praising all it can do and how much work they get done with their agents and I'm just left confused.