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Ignoring lemmyhate, are programmers really using AI to be more efficient? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 day ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/programming@programming.dev
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I've seen a few articles saying that instead of hating AI, the real quiet programmers young and old are loving it and have a renewed sense of purpose coding with llm helpers (this article was also hating on ed zitiron, which makes sense why it would).

Is this total bullshit? I have to admit, even though it makes me ill, I've used llms a few times to help me learn simple code syntax quickly (im and absolute noob who's wanted my whole life to learn code but cant grasp it very well). But yes, a lot of time its wrong.

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[–] asm@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

I’m somewhat new to the field ~1.5 years, so my opinion doesn’t hold too much weight.

But in the embedded field I’ve found AI to not be as helpful as it seems to be for many others. The one BIG thing is has helped me with is I can give it a data sheet and it’ll spit out all the register fields that I need, or help me quickly find information that I’m too lazy to Ctrl-f, which saves a couple minutes.

It has not proven it’s worth when it comes to the firmware itself. I’ve tried to get it to instantiate some peripheral instances and they never ended up working, no matter how I phrased the prompt or what context i’ve given it.