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>>laurex+(OP)
I don't understand the productivity that people get out of these AI tools. I've tried it and I just can't get anything remotely worthwhile unless it's something very simple or something completely new being built from the ground up.

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.

>>brooke+Hm
Just yesterday I wanted to adjust the Renovate setup in a repo.

I could spend 5-10 minutes digging on through the docs for the correct config option, or I can just tap a hotkey, open up GitHub Copilot in Rider and tell it what I want to achieve.

And within seconds it had a correct-looking setting ready to insert to my renovate.json file. I added it, tested it and it works.

I kinda think people who diss AIs are prompting something like "build me Facebook" and then being disappointed when it doesn't :D