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Darryl Yeo đ ïž
@darrylyeo
My two cents: using AI tools âcorrectlyâ necessitates understanding the fundamentals. You can probably get by on AI prompts alone if your team values speed of execution over quality, but assuming everyone else is doing the same just understand youâre still easily outpaced by someone with a âmuscle memoryâ of identifying patterns and syntax unique to that programming language / tech stack. By all means, use AI tools to bridge your gaps and accelerate learning (I do this all the time now for parts of the stack Iâm unfamiliar with). But if Iâm hiring you to work on a specific problem area, at minimum Iâd expect you to have read lots of relevant docs/articles/videos, be extremely comfortable testing/evaluating different libraries/tools, make opinionated decisions and execute on them, which is easier the more experienced you are.
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
We've had "technical debt" for time immemorial; that's not a new thing. It's the phenomenon of doing something quickly, trading off downstream maintainability or scaleability, for some other more expedient reward. Remaining entirely "tech debt" free is a sub-optimal stance, as those expedient rewards (often "discovering something real" in user-space, or grabbing customers quick on a new idea etc)...is a thing you manage very carefully, and refactoring as fast and strategically as you can afford, to avoid the inevitable complexity explosion and the project implosion that is the sword of Damocles forever hanging overhead. Hickey laid it out (in a different context from AI gen tools) in his famous talk "Simple Made Easy" (2011), but when I think about your comments @darrylyeo, it occurs we're talking about the same damn thing. Gen AI code slop gets you to project complexity implosion faster. A tradeoff that's often smart, but should be seen as such. ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4
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Chinmay đčïžđż
@chinmay.eth
Same as my experience. AI will speed it up, but won't fix your problems.
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tomuky
@tomuky.eth
Iâve found enormous value in using Cursor.ai for learning! I can ask the stupid questions that would be hard to even start googling. Itâs like having an expert helping me mentally connect the dots on things Iâve always wanted to learn. Itâs like Iâm able to drive places now instead of walking. My ceiling for what I can build is 100x higher.
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