Anone here used AI for coding?

[Brainsaw]

Hi,

I would like to hear of some experience when using AI for coding. I work at an American software company and we use AI quite a lot which in this case makes life easier. This is mainly because in our main product the architecture sucks and everything is way to complicated, but thanks to AI some tasks get done pretty fast whereas others take at least the same amount of time as doing it by hand.

Some month ago I had some AI budget left at the end of the month so I had it improve my Dustbin Shader (see "Project Announcements" forum) which gave some nice results.

So who else has experience coding with AI?

[CuteAlien]

I mostly use it like a search-engine. Give me some idea and then I filter through which are useful. And it often beats ddg or google when used like that (well both have their own ai by now - but I mean compared to their default results). But I prefer writing the code then myself.

Not a fan of letting it write the code. AI tends to have lot's of "ideas" - some good, some bad, some accidentally working. It's sometimes good when I'm stuck hunting for a bug. Simply because it delivers ideas what it could be so fast. The downside is - it always delivers so many ideas and going over those can take sometimes more time than doing it yourself. And it keeps on delivering ideas even if it has no idea whatsoever - like when there is simply no solution for something it will still keep on making proposals which solve "related" (but for me completely useless) stuff.

Company where I freelance at uses it a lot with php. It's become pretty good at that stuff - even rather complicated tasks tend to end up solved well.

I suppose it will also get better at c++/shaders and I'll be struggling more and more to explain why I still refuse letting it work on that instead of doing it myself. Can't really say I like that - just adds more pressure and we all will continue working the same amount of hours for the same amount of money (yeah occassionally a guy will get rich - but on average...). And we will understand our code less and less. And then there's the environmental impact... yay.

[Granyte]

I use it alot. It's really stupid but it writes so much faster then I do that it's still faster to have it do it 3 times then correct what it won't do correctly then writing code manually

[Brainsaw]

At work it's a great help as the big project I'm working on is imho way to complicated from the architecture. Generally I'm also not a big fan of just having code written and just using it - it must properly be reviewed. And I have to agree, you don't really understand the code if you are using AI too much.

Plus they want to build a huge datacenter for AI near my home town, and I don't like the idea