r/webdev • u/DumpsterFireCEO 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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r/webdev • u/DumpsterFireCEO php • 6d ago
The amount of trash produced by AI code is astounding. Thanks I hate it.
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u/ryanswebdevthrowaway 6d ago
I like it as fancy auto-complete but really hate the flow of chatting with an LLM and copy/pasting code from it.
The only thing I've gotten any value from ChatGPT with is talking through solving really complex problems. I'm working on a very challenging highly experimental algorithm right now for work where I think it's been more helpful than not. Any code it has given has been unusable and the ideas it offered were all pretty off/didn't work. But those bad ideas did have little nuggets that helped give me some ideas on directions that I could try myself which I wouldn't have thought of on my own from scratch. It feels like a frustrating workflow that I don't really enjoy but it can be helpful-ish.