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0 pointsSeanAnderson6mo ago0 comments

or a typical CRUD app architecture, or a common design pattern, or unit/integration test scaffolding, or standard CI/CD pipeline definitions, or one-off utility scripts, etc...

Like 80% of writing coding is just being a glorified autocomplete and AI is exceptional at automating those aspects. Yes, there is a lot more to being a developer than writing code, but, in those instances, AI really does make a difference in the amount of time one is able to spend focusing on domain-specific deliverables.

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MasterScrat6mo ago

And even for "out of distribution" code you can still ask question about how to do the same thing but more optimized, could a library help for this, why is that piece of code giving this unexpected output etc

positron266mo ago

It has gotten to the point that I don't modify or write SQL. Instead I throw some schema and related queries in and use natural language to rubber duck the change, by which point the LLM can already get it right.

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positron266mo ago

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