you’re right, we DO use it very differently. i use it to code things i don’t know how to code. but my ideas aren’t that original, so it always produces a working product as long as a reprompt it enough. your work involves something that hasn’t really been thought of yet, so i can see why AI wouldn’t do anything
Or something more complicated than it can handle. Ask it to implement an ASN.1 floating point parser. It looks good but the closer you look at the code the more trash it is.
whenever people say “try asking it to do THIS!” they’re usually talking about something the AI doesn’t get right after one prompt. just prompt it long enough and it’ll work
I tried for a good 20-30 minutes to get it to generate something that worked. It just gave me a sequence of garbage. Each one looked plausible but as soon as I really read the code it was clear there were issues. Different issues each time. I wasted more time trying to get it to produce correct code than it took to write it myself, once I gave up on the AI.
For me the most productive way to use AI is to ask it to suggest a strategy and to implement that myself. If the code is simple enough for the AI to get it right, I can often write it myself with less effort. If it’s something that requires multiple reprompts to get right, I can almost always do it faster myself.
if it’s something that requires multiple prompts to get right
that’s almost always the case. it’s so dumb how all these AI critics are like “well it didn’t do everything right the first time, therefore LLMs are garbage.” ffs just have some patience, it only takes a few more prompts most of the time
you’re right, we DO use it very differently. i use it to code things i don’t know how to code. but my ideas aren’t that original, so it always produces a working product as long as a reprompt it enough. your work involves something that hasn’t really been thought of yet, so i can see why AI wouldn’t do anything
Or something more complicated than it can handle. Ask it to implement an ASN.1 floating point parser. It looks good but the closer you look at the code the more trash it is.
whenever people say “try asking it to do THIS!” they’re usually talking about something the AI doesn’t get right after one prompt. just prompt it long enough and it’ll work
I tried for a good 20-30 minutes to get it to generate something that worked. It just gave me a sequence of garbage. Each one looked plausible but as soon as I really read the code it was clear there were issues. Different issues each time. I wasted more time trying to get it to produce correct code than it took to write it myself, once I gave up on the AI.
For me the most productive way to use AI is to ask it to suggest a strategy and to implement that myself. If the code is simple enough for the AI to get it right, I can often write it myself with less effort. If it’s something that requires multiple reprompts to get right, I can almost always do it faster myself.
that’s almost always the case. it’s so dumb how all these AI critics are like “well it didn’t do everything right the first time, therefore LLMs are garbage.” ffs just have some patience, it only takes a few more prompts most of the time