Nicholas Charriere on Warpcast

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Nicholas Charriere

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 can see how AI can be less useful for people who tend to work using the same language, same libs, same frameworks, same stack, etc. for a long period of time so they have the muscle memory to do the same things over and over with slight variations. For folks that are frequently shifting between different languages, stacks, etc. AI helps a lot. Either way AI it's definitely just raises the floor, the ceiling isn't set by coding skills anyway.

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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.

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Yeah, this has been my + my friends' experience cc @pratsummer.eth https://warpcast.com/zinger/0x5dd0a0be

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Yeah this feels right but I wonder how much they might get from it for stubbing out tests, etc. tedious shit.

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very interesting observation thanks for sharing that this helps explain why some devs I look up to say they rarely us AI when actually coding

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The type of stuff I need help with ai seems to get confidently wrong 80% of the time

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yes agreed, it’s unlocked a lot for me, I don’t get paid to write production code, so it raises the floor but if you know what you’re doing, I think cursor tab and some of the small quality of life things are the only real value add

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i wonder if the true unlock is more net positive people coding? and then that “burden” doesn’t go fully to eng maybe not production code but for example could help with internal tools that need to be spun up and maybe you don’t need a dedicated engineer that spends 0.2 FTE as a person helping an ops team

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I like having chatgpt open and using just that for very focused assistance. When writing a lot of zk code, ai tools manage to fuck everything up that simple 30min tasks take a whole day to complete.

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Have to disagree. Find the latency to be minimal. Find the short auto completes very helpful and time saving. Can somewhat understand the sentiment if you’re asking it to write a lot of code for you. Cursor composer style.

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