• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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    That’s actually a valid skill to know when to tell the AI that it’s wrong.

    A few months ago, I had to talk to my juniors to think critically about the shitty code that AI was generating. I was getting sick of clearly copy-pasted code from chatGPT and the junior not knowing what the fuck they were submitting to code review.

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      Should start asking them like, why did you do this? Why did you chose this method? To make them sweat :p

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        That used to make sense when LLMs were not the thing, when evaluating assessments from students, half of which asked someone else and didn’t bother to even read the code

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          If no one can make sense of the change, then you reject it. Makes no difference if it was generated with an LLM or copy-pasted from Stackoverflow.

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      I’m trying to convince a senior developer from the team I’m a member of, to stop using copilot. They have committed code that they didn’t understand (only tested to verify it does what it’s expected to do). I doubt it’d succeed…

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        Co-pilot is amazing and terrible at the same time.

        When it’s suggesting the exact line of code I expect to write, amazing. When it can build the permissions I need for a service account for a TF module I’ve written, amazing

        However, it will suggest poorly formed, un-optimized code all too often.

        That said, knowing when to use/not use/modify the suggested code has greatly improved my productivity and consistency.

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          I wish all this AI stuff was limited to just creating a new coding language. That I can get behind, sharing programming information is not the same as copying others art.