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

[Random_Walk]

Its great for writing subroutines but try a larger progam and you will end up with a mess and a very long conversation with the AI trying to fix it.

I needed to take a flat list of items with and item number and the number of the parent item, and convert this into a tree structure in javascript. Not done much javascript and that was 10y ago so I asked AI(Gemini) and it gave me direct clean working code.

I've asked it to fix larger problems and spent too long debuging. It's also handy to generate tests and fake data. So I use it daily but build the framework of my programs first and get it to do the grunt work in well defined subs.

Cheers,
R.