rushaction

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a glorified autocorrect. Using it for anything else and expecting magic is an interesting idea. I’m not sure what folks are expecting there.
- It suggests variables and function names I was already going to type more accurately. Better, it suggests ones even when I cannot remember the name because i got stumped trying to remember.
- It fills in basic control structures and functions more effectively than the IDE’s completion templates.
- It provides a decent starting point for both comments and documentation (the hard part). Meaning my code actually has comments and documentation. Regularly!
But I don’t ask it to explain things or generate algorithms willy nilly. I don’t expect or try to have it do something that’s not more than simply auto-completion.

I honestly like it, even if I strongly dislike the use of AI elsewhere. It’s working in this area for me.