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Been talking with a lot of engineers recently about using AI editors.

A trend is emerging: if you are proficient with the LSP and know shortcuts to navigate and have a good typing speed, using AI is a net negative.

The micro-interruptions, the http latency, and the inaccuracy is just worse.

So truly AI for coding seems to be a floor raiser, without touching the ceiling much

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I find an AI copilot helpful on certain specific tasks.

1. writing unit tests. I’ll ask it to add unit tests and it’ll sometimes find cases I haven’t implemented yet. So kinda like a pairing pingpong pattern.

2. quick simplification pass. I’ll have some block of code working and tested, and I’ll ask it to review and simplify. Sometimes I see an improvement I like. 

But yeah, it’s not typically able to do a first pass implementation unless I spend a bit of time writing detailed requirements, at which point I’d often rather write the code myself.