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Are you still using AI tools to help with development? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by jeff@programming.dev to c/experienced_devs@programming.dev

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I trialed GitHub Copilot and used ChatGPT for a bit, but recently I found myself using them less and less.

I've found them valuable when doing something new(at least to me), but for most of my day-to-day it seems to have lost it's luster.

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[–] nibblebit@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can tell having ai write small scripts and translating formats has made it more difficult for me to recognise the small differences between languages. I can tell i often get confused about how to do simple things like for loops http requests and file Io in c#, kotlin, rust, go , JS, pwsh, bash, Lua, pythong, groovy etc..

It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it is noticable the languages make less and less of a difference..

Edit: I think it's a similar thing as having a full featured ide with tons of code completion and suggestions. When writing stuff from scratch without prompts you kinda get lazy.