I’ve seen a few articles saying that instead of hating AI, the real quiet programmers young and old are loving it and have a renewed sense of purpose coding with llm helpers (this article was also hating on ed zitiron, which makes sense why it would).

Is this total bullshit? I have to admit, even though it makes me ill, I’ve used llms a few times to help me learn simple code syntax quickly (im and absolute noob who’s wanted my whole life to learn code but cant grasp it very well). But yes, a lot of time its wrong.

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    26 days ago

    My brother in programming,

    please don’t use AI for data format conversion when deterministic energy efficient means are readily available.

    • an old man.
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      26 days ago

      It was just an example to illustrate the point. I use specific convertors for actual format conversions. Actual uses have been map it to a custom data model .

      You are right though , right tool for the job and all that.