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My work is requiring me to start using AI so I did an exploration this weekend.

I was blown away by how quickly I was able to get a working app. Full social media clone complete with persistence, video and audio playback, auth, realtime updates, and image uploads in about half an hour. I was then horrified by the quality of the code and how little I understood what the code was doing. I 10x’ed my speed, but in return debugging and editing was 100x harder and more time consuming.

I was also attempting to learn React Native and took note of how little debugging using the AI helped me actually learn the platform I was working with. I ended up abandoning the AI in favor of just learning directly.

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[–] machinya@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

even with classically-written code, most of the time spend on development goes to debugging it. i cannot understand why it ever became popular to simplify the already simple part of programming and make the already hard one way harder. if you want a fully working application with little effort, there are many blueprints or frameworks that give you everything without having to trust the lie-generating machine to have something usable AND debugeable

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i cannot understand why it ever became popular to simplify the already simple part of programming and make the already hard one way harder.

Writing the initial code was never simple to me unless it was trivial code, debugging was usually faster. Also setting up all the boilerplate is always boring as shit, might as well have the AI do it just don't overdo it with using it.