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minus-squareGxost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoIt depends. AI can help writing good code. Or it can write bad code. It depends on the developer’s goals.
minus-squareSauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoLLMs can be great for translating pseudo code into real code or creating boiler plate or automating tedious stuff, but ChatGPT is terrible at actual software engineering.
minus-squarewise_pancake@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoHonestly I just use it for the boilerplate crap. Fill in that yaml config, write those lua bindings that are just a sequence of lua_pushinteger(L, 1), write the params of my do string kind of stuff. Saves me a ton of time to think about the actual structure.
It depends. AI can help writing good code. Or it can write bad code. It depends on the developer’s goals.
LLMs can be great for translating pseudo code into real code or creating boiler plate or automating tedious stuff, but ChatGPT is terrible at actual software engineering.
Honestly I just use it for the boilerplate crap.
Fill in that yaml config, write those lua bindings that are just a sequence of lua_pushinteger(L, 1), write the params of my do string kind of stuff.
Saves me a ton of time to think about the actual structure.