Comment by defatigable
Comment by defatigable 9 hours ago
Agreed. In the domains where I'm an expert, it's a nice productivity boost. In the domains where I'm not, it's transformative.
As a complete aside from the question of productivity, these coding tools have reawakened a love of programming in me. I've been coding for long enough that the nitty gritty of everyday programming just feels like a slog - decrypting compiler errors, fixing type checking issues, factoring out helper functions, whatever. With these tools, I get to think about code at a much higher level. I create designs and high level ideas and the AI does all the annoying detail work.
I'm sure there are other people for whom those tasks feel like an interesting and satisfying puzzle, but for me it's been very liberating to escape from them.
> In the domains where I'm an expert, it's a nice productivity boost. In the domains where I'm not, it's transformative.
Is it possible that the code you are writing isn't good, but you don't know it because you're not an expert?