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AI Models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic Solve 0% of ‘Hard’ Coding Problems (analyticsindiamag.com)
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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fortunately, 90% of coding is not hard problems. We write the same crap over and over. How many different creat an account and signin flows do we really need. Yet there seem to be an infinite amount, and each with it's own bugs.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The hard problems are the only reason I like programming. If 90% of my job was repetitive boilerplate, I'd probably be looking elsewhere.

    I really dislike how LLMs are flooding the internet with a seemingly infinite amount of half-broken TODO-app style programs with no care at all for improving things or doing something actually unique.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    A lot of people don't realize how many times the problem they are solving has already been solved. But after being in the industry for 3 decades, very few things people are working on haven't been done before. They just get put together in different combinations.

    As for AI, I have found it decent at wruting one time scripts to gather information I need to make design decisions. And it's a little quicker when I need to look up a syntax for a language or like a resource name for terraform. But even one off scripts I sometimes have to ask it if a while loop wouldn't be better and such.

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