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tomuky
@tomuky.eth
In the context of looking for a dev role in crypto, what’s the balance between relying on ai tools to code and knowing the proper syntax of things by heart? I feel like a jr dev could easily be considered a sr dev with the right ai tools when used correctly (not blindly).
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Darryl Yeo 🛠️
@darrylyeo
https://warpcast.com/darrylyeo/0x66c242e7
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@xh3b4sd.eth
My experience has been that code generation tools which we call "AI" today lead you down the wrong path real quick. If you know what you are doing then you get a performance boost. If you are too junior then you just find quicker ways to drive against the wall. Every day I run into engineering problems that ChatGPT thinks is the right approach, and every day there are challenges for which the model is wrong without knowing it. You can be productive at writing bad code and building bad products that break in interesting ways when you need it the least. Anyone who understands anything about any domain knows that the language models of today are bullshit generators. They are useful for some tasks, but IMO they cannot promote a junior engineer to a senior engineer. No chance. Period. Full Stop. This has something to do with real life and real industry specific experience, and language models are not yet good at that at all.
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Moon
@moon.eth
I have been doing this since 2017. I can't memorize all this crap. there are libraries that change monthly. Every version of ethers.js is completely incompatible with the others. most react stuff is literally just memorization. understand the concepts, focus on that, use the tools to mash together code.
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Shihao
@shihao
imo junior dev is not capable of using ai tools as well as a sr dev, esp for complex problems with many domain specific subtitles. An AI coding tool is only as good as its user, for now. You don't need to know the proper syntax of things by heart though, that's usually the leasts of your concern.
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blaynem
@drilkmops
Oh boy, spicy. Tell me you’ve never worked in a larger codebase without telling me. We need to remember that ai is just fancy text completion. It can help you in individual functions, but it’s not going to help you once you get stuck in the weeds. It’s a great rubber ducky tool, not actual intelligence.
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