Like sure, I can ask claude to give me the barebones of a web service that does some simple task. Or a webpage with some information on it.
But any time I've tried to get AI services to help with bugfixing/feature development on a large, complex, potentially multi-language codebase, it's useless.
And those tasks are the ones that actually take up the majority of my time. On the occasion that I'm spinning a new thing up quickly, I don't really need an AI to do it for me -- I mean, that's the easy part!
Is there something I'm missing? Am I just not using it right? I keep seeing people talk about how addictive it is, how the productivity boost is insane, how all their code is now written by AI and then audited, and I just don't see how that's possible outside of really simple rote programming.
The talk about it makes more sense when you remember most developers are primarily writing CRUD webapps or adware, which is essentially a solved problem already.
Clearly something like “server telemetry” is the datacenter’s “CRUD app” analogue.
It’s a solved problem that largely requires rtfm and rote execution of well worn patterns in code structure.
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