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Re: What's your view on AI coding assistants?

by 1nickt (Canon)
on Oct 04, 2025 at 10:05 UTC ( [id://11166417]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to What's your view on AI coding assistants?

On a couple of occasions I have asked Google to produce some code (for example, JQuery JavaScript code to select/deselect all rows in a DataTables table using a singe checkbox input) and it has provided working code. But these are just snippets. So I can't speak to its ability to produce complex code.

I also find it to be of very limited use because at $work the vast majority of the "coding" we do consists of tiny incremental updates to our enormous codebase due to business rules changes. AI is familiar with neither the codebase nor the business rules behind it.

So for now it finds only an extremely limited role in my toolkit.


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.
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