I know of some companies where they write up a full spec in markup, and have the ai code from that. They claim it works well, but that seems like extra work.
Personally, most of my coding is maintenance and AI sucks at that. I can get the ai to give me good recommendation, but not usable code. I have had it do a good job writing utility scripts such as data extraction, and tests - it can even save me time
So if you have a greenfield project, and are able to give it sufficient context, people claim it can work …… I’m highly doubtful it’s maintainable though, and maintenance cost is far higher than the cost of initial creation. I really think these companies are digging a hole for themselves
Of course I’m taking advantage of this
scheduling extra refactoring on the claim that maybe AI can be useful with cleaner code
fun and games to give AI more context, in case that can make it useful
I know of some companies where they write up a full spec in markup, and have the ai code from that. They claim it works well, but that seems like extra work.
Personally, most of my coding is maintenance and AI sucks at that. I can get the ai to give me good recommendation, but not usable code. I have had it do a good job writing utility scripts such as data extraction, and tests - it can even save me time
So if you have a greenfield project, and are able to give it sufficient context, people claim it can work …… I’m highly doubtful it’s maintainable though, and maintenance cost is far higher than the cost of initial creation. I really think these companies are digging a hole for themselves
Of course I’m taking advantage of this