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If you ever tried to use ai for code you'd know how dumb it was.
Generally it's ok, it'll get some stuff done but if it thinks something is a certain way you can't convince it otherwise. It hallucinates documentation, admits it made it up then carries on telling you to use the made up parts of the code.
Infuriating.
Like I said though, generally pretty good at helping you learn a new language if you have knowledge to start with.
People learning from scratch are cooked, it makes crazy decisions sometimes that will compound over time and leave you with trash.
Oh dear God yes ... my employer wants us to use Cursor. I've tried twice now. It can't debug C# unit tests. In attempting to configure itself to do that it hosed itself so badly that I had to uninstall Cursor AND Code then wipe my system of IDE leftovers and reinstall both. Attempt 2 was to have it go through a rather large class file to make sure there were newlines in the right place, and remove excess newlines. It totally hosed the class file and I had to revert. It then apologized profusely and admitted it really shouldn't be used to make direct changes to files.
It's ok if you want to get a nudge in the right direction when you're suck. But that's about it.
If you ever tried using it for anything you are pretty familiar with, you'd know how dumb it was.
That's the only reason I think people still think AI is great; they don't know shit so they think the AI is giving them good info when it's not.
I actually started finding use cases for copilot in excel. It is still dumb, but it can mass process data quickly so if you write your prompt well, it can save you a lot of time.
And that is exactly how "AI" should be used. It can boost productivity if used as the tool that it is.
I've actually tried to use these things to learn both Go and Rust (been writing Python for 17 years) and the experience was terrible. In both cases, it would generate code that referenced packages that didn't exist, used patterns that aren't used anymore, and wrote code that didn't even compile. It was wholly useless as a learning tool.
In the end what worked was what always works: I got a book and started on page 1. It was hard, but I started actually learning after a few hours.
I used Gemini for go and was pleasantly surprised, might be important to note that I don't ask it to generate a whole thing but more like "in go how do I " and sort of build up from there myself.
Chatgpt and deepseek were a lot more failure prone.
As an aside I found Gemini very good at debugging blender issues where the UI is very complex and unforgiving, and issues with that are super hard to search for, different versions and similarly named things etc.
But as soon as you hit something it will not accept has changed it's basically useless. But often that got me to a point where I could find posts in forums about "where did functionality x move to"
Just like VR I think the bubble will burst and it will remain a niche technology that can be fine tuned for certain professions or situations.
People getting excited for ways for ai to control their PCs are probably going to be in for a bad time..