AI coding = placebo? Ok this one is genuinely hard to believe. Were people forced to use AI for tasks they didn't need to? I'm hearing from folks in big tech that there's a productivity boost but maybe it really is a "placebo"
AI coding = placebo? Ok this one is genuinely hard to believe. Were people forced to use AI for tasks they didn't need to? I'm hearing from folks in big tech that there's a productivity boost but maybe it really is a "placebo"
@neetcode1 For every 30 minutes of prompting you get an hour of debugging.
We use Cursor at work for almost 6 months, and everyone has mostly stopped using it At first we were excited but it was gone soon. It still works for a very very narrow usecases but for writing code I end up losing a lot of time everytime I try it but it saves time when querying in large code bases ("tell me why this feature behaves this way")
@neetcode1 i disagree. i think you really are way more productive if you leverage it the right manner. sure, give a vague prompt with no context and u will spend eons trying to debug ai slop but if u know what ur doing and use it for incremental dev its pretty darn good man
@neetcode1 Ngl this is cope, you can’t deny it makes it faster… if it’s slowing you down, you aren’t using it rigjt…
@neetcode1 it's not useful for writing programs you don't know how to write because it will make subtle mistakes that you won't be be able to fix, and it's not good for writing programs you do know how to write because you'll make less and more obvious mistakes that you can fix
@neetcode1 Define AI bro. I think people confuse autocompleting method and class signatures with AI.
@neetcode1 the more you know about an existing codebase, and the more complex or rare the codebase, the less relatively effective AI is. However on the other end it’s undoubtedly effective as a tool.
@neetcode1 I'm not sure about results but one thing AI done to my day to day work All small changes it does faster than me I think it increased my productivity around 50%. I do only the business logic setup correctly.
@neetcode1 It's great initially and it usually "looks" correct but as the codebase and logic gets larger the wheels fall off and you're sitting there spending ages debugging and code reviewing. I usually just keep it to the initial outline of code and for small bugfixes now.