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I feel like AI is a 5G language, in that we have moved on from writing code directly to writing md files to command the bots to write the code. It seems like a higher abstraction of the code. It does make you think less about the code directly, and more about the bigger picture, but you still need those skills to check the bots output.
This is a recipe for SQL injections, race conditions, memory leaks, and keys being placed directly in code.
Trust the output of an LLM at your peril. Literally.
Well I did say you still need to use your skills to check the bots code.
Unless you're checking every line and have a good enough and comprehensive enough understanding of the codebase to spot subtle bugs it will try to introduce that aren't caught by your tests, you're still opening yourself up to problems.
Your right and it is something that is part of the workflow. You really should only do this process on a language your are really familiar with so you know exactly how you would do it without the bots assistance.
I think everyone’s development experience is different with these tools, we are not letting it just work the ticket blindly based off some prompt, we are having it do small tasks that would normally take a few minutes and are now done in seconds. We don’t allow these bots to commit code, or even the commit message, and the devs are still responsible at the end of the day for the code they commit.
Don't know why you got downvoted, you're 100% right. It's just another layer of abstraction. Like a super high level non-deterministic level of abstraction.
I would say that it's doesn't count as a "5G language" if you have to understand and check the underlying "assembly code" it outputs every time you use it.
They do. And have been around for years. Theyre not successful because theure full of a lot of fluff. Because its language and not instructional.
It seems there a lot of people on Lemmy who dislike anything AI. I have no choice at my work so I have to make the best of it as I’m not leaving my job in this economy.
Yeah well welcome to work life in the US. It sucks but I’m surviving.