Recently, Devin the supposed "First AI Software Engineer" was announced. The company lied and said that their video showed Devin completing and getting paid...

YouTuber Internet of Bugs examines the latest demo from Cognition that showcases their “first AI software engineer” allegedly solving UpWork programming tasks.

  • Sparrow_1029@programming.devEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Am I one of the few who just doesn’t use AI at all? I don’t have to generate tons of code for work at the moment and brand new projects that I’ve been given are small–meaning I wouldn’t necessarily use it to generate starter boilerplate. I have coworkers that love copilot or spend much longer prompting ChatGPT than they would if they wrote code themselves. A majority of my time is spent modelling the problem, gathering rejuirements, researching others’ solutions online (likely this step could be better AI-assisted?), not actually implementing a solution in code.

    Anyway, I’m not super anti-AI in software development, and I see where it could be useful. Maybe it just isn’t for me yet. The current hype around it as well as the attitude of big-tech exceptionalism (“AI can salve all our problems”) feels a bit like a bubble, at least regarding the current generation of LLMs and ML

    • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
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      7 months ago

      One way it can be useful is when you use it as a more verbal variant of rubber duck debugging. You’ll need to state the issue that you’re facing, including the context and edge cases. In doing so, the problem will also become more clear to you yourself.

      Contrary to a rubber duck, it can then actually suggest some approach vectors, which you can then dismiss or investigate further.