Comment on Study (N=16) finds AI (Cursor/Claude) slows development
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 6 days ago
If you already know what you’re doing, AI generating code is redundant. If you don’t know what you’re doing, it might work for you, up to the point you’re spending all your time debugging hallucinatory code.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 days ago
Nah, it can be really useful for people who do know what they’re doing as it can be used to generate the “charlie work” (IASIP reference if you don’t know) things like unit tests and documentation and things like that pretty damn well.
radioactivefunguy@piefed.ca 6 days ago
Yup, yesterday I decided it was finally time to write unit/feature tests on a project that had gotten way to far asking with 0 tests. just over an hour of babysitting Codex and now I've got 800 tests covering 16 models and 60+ endpoints (8000 lines of code) in the exact code style I wanted based on my AGENTS. Honestly, reading through the tests, I wouldn't know that I didn't write them!
Now, trying to use AI to solve a novel problem, or even a not so novel one with any logical complexity, and hours can easily be wasted trying to guide it, correct it's mistakes, and then eventually roll it all back and do it yourself because your smart enough, just being lazy! 😬