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[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Honestly, that's a smart thing for AI companies to do. AI is surprisingly decent at extrapolating from existing codebases, but it's useless at starting from scratch. If one model says "I can't do that, Dave" and another spits out garbage, you're getting the same amount of useful code out of both and a much better signal-to-noise ratio from the first.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

imo it's the opposite, AI is good at starting projects by giving you boilerplate code, but bad at considering the full context of an existing project. Better to be doing the larger structure stuff yourself and only giving the LLM self contained tasks.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml -4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

No, it's not smart, I pay for Cursor to generate code, not to patronize me. I would stop paying for it and instead switch to something that at least tries different ideas to get my feature to work.

(Also it's definitely not useless at starting from scratch, you just need a strong design and good understanding of what's possible)

[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

What does it help you with? I can definitely see having snippets or "modular" code on hand as being useful, but you don't really need a LLM for that. What sets it apart? Is there a big time commitment necessary to get to the desired outputs or does it just do what you want right away?

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 7 points 20 hours ago

It helps with avoiding learning templates in your IDE or literally any other feature that's been around for decades.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

On mobile but two real quick examples:

The prompting in both of these cases started with an idea ("give me a cute penguin SVG logo") and refined ("make the beak smaller and more round.. add a purple background.." etc)

For more in-depth rather than one off features, this whole app was basically coded with AI (and I use it everyday, the quality is fantastic): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.widget.uvindex

[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 20 hours ago

Hmm, I guess if you're happy with the output here that's all that matters. For me, the visual elements look really uninspired and mediocre. But if you're still in the startup/iteration stage then I suppose the unfinished look makes sense.

I guess it's a good place to start? Maybe? Depends if the code is easy to maintain. I was more interested in how you feel the AI adds to your existing coding workflow, but maybe you aren't a professional programmer? I am getting the impression that the AI is doing most of the work here but maybe I have the wrong idea.

[–] kane@femboys.biz 28 points 22 hours ago

Finally, we got a based AI

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 11 points 22 hours ago

AI trained by reddit and stackoverflow, I guarantee it

[–] awesomesauce309@midwest.social 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Did they train this one on redditors too? Next it’s gonna talk to a lawyer and hit up the gym. Maybe we’ll get lucky and skynet will get confused and delete all of Facebook.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 21 hours ago

I can't wait for it to rickrole random people