On: The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted cod...

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Most of my time isn't spent coding. It's spent designing, discussing, documenting, and debugging. If AI wrote 90% of my code for me I'd still be busy all day.

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> It's spent designing, discussing, documenting, and debugging.

Why not let AI handle these tasks as well?

[bigstrat2003 → eru]

It can't even write code well enough to be useful. Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

[eru → bigstrat2003]

It might actually be better at discussing than at coding.

Just like Eliza is better at producing a reasonable looking conversation, if you pair it with a cooperating human.

[skydhash → eru]

It's not theater, where rough likeness (and a good dose of imagination) is all you need.

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AI debugging - a good one!

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ChatGPT can be surprisingly helpful making suggestions for what to do about error messages.

(Which is one small area of debugging.)