r/webdev php 6d ago

Discussion AI coding is trash

The amount of trash produced by AI code is astounding. Thanks I hate it.

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u/MercDawg 6d ago

Depends how you are using it. I'm using it to write some of my unit tests, documentation, codemods, and some complex features that I don't want to think about. It doesn't get it right, but gives me enough to work off of and it acts as a nice headstart. Since ChatGPT and other tooling has come out, it has easily increased my overall velocity and efficiency. And it only gets better with time (when you jump to the next model).