Listen, I’m a VERY healthy skeptic of AI on a number of fronts, but saying it can’t speed things up is just not true.
I feel like I understand where you’re trying to come from with the argument about skill degradation, but the flat statement you say here is undeniably false.
except its not. maybe a fat wad of code happens faster, but then you have to go read it and understand it and edit it and resolve all the stupid shit it did, and all of that takes longer than just writing it yourself in the first place. if all you care about is lines of code, sure yeah it speeds up the creation of garbage, but if you care at all about having good maintainable code at the end it absolutely does not. but what does what i think matter, nuance on the internet is dead.
I’ve run this experiment on myself a great number of times.
Your story is correct, sometimes. It’s not correct all of the time. Sometimes AI is slower and the output is better (think: pair programming). Sometimes AI gets me the first draft and the cognitive understanding takes time (overall, for me, usually faster, but sometimes slower I will readily admit). I’m really good at reading code, I guess? And still other times it will one shot near perfection (in true slot machine fashion). It’ll also produce absolute shit, as well, frequently.
Listen, I’m a VERY healthy skeptic of AI on a number of fronts, but saying it can’t speed things up is just not true.
I feel like I understand where you’re trying to come from with the argument about skill degradation, but the flat statement you say here is undeniably false.
except its not. maybe a fat wad of code happens faster, but then you have to go read it and understand it and edit it and resolve all the stupid shit it did, and all of that takes longer than just writing it yourself in the first place. if all you care about is lines of code, sure yeah it speeds up the creation of garbage, but if you care at all about having good maintainable code at the end it absolutely does not. but what does what i think matter, nuance on the internet is dead.
I’ve run this experiment on myself a great number of times.
Your story is correct, sometimes. It’s not correct all of the time. Sometimes AI is slower and the output is better (think: pair programming). Sometimes AI gets me the first draft and the cognitive understanding takes time (overall, for me, usually faster, but sometimes slower I will readily admit). I’m really good at reading code, I guess? And still other times it will one shot near perfection (in true slot machine fashion). It’ll also produce absolute shit, as well, frequently.
My firm point to you is it’s not a blanket truth.