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0 pointsfirtoz10mo ago0 comments

It's very marmite. I used to hate it when it was vscode's crappy copilot. Now with Cursor and Windsurf, after some onboarding, I find it indispensable. I have used AI for coding for 3 separate roles: - freelancer - CTO - employee

And in all 3 cases, AI has increased my productivity, and I could ship things even when I'm really sleepy or if I have very little time between things, I can send a prompt to an agent and then review things, and then when I have more time, I can clean up some of the mess.

Now my stance is really at "Whoever doesn't take advantage of it is NGMI"

You're specifically very wrong at "LLM's cannot do: following a formal spec in a particular problem domain". It does take skill to ensure that they will, though, for sure.

TLDR: Skill issue

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otabdeveloper410mo ago

> TLDR: Skill issue

What's the skill set here? Spending four hours to massage prompts to painstakingly do what can be done manually in 15 minutes?

firtozOP10mo ago

No, it's more like knowing the strengths and weaknesses, and if the work is good, accepting, and if not good, directing in the right way. The latter may take some time to learn, for sure, but not that much, and once you know, it's faster and faster.

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