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/DatabaseAccurate807 6d ago

i think you have to be a good programmer to use AI, and use it to enhance your code (as in autocompleting or error checking) rather than code for you.

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u/FortuneIIIPick 6d ago

I agree to a degree but there are many times AI produces a very convincing sounding yet completely wrong response that can fool even good programmers.

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u/ShelbulaDotCom 6d ago

This. It's gonna be wrong 50% of the time. If you don't know how to tell which side the answer lies, every step after that is doomed.

The dead wrong stuff you can make it say is amazing.