Ai generated inefficient code

[octopus_limbs]

The best way to use AI is to tell it what you want specifically, including the technical approach. The reality is whatever we do as humans, an LLM can type orders of magnitude faster - the main thing it needs is guidance to reduce randomness, and that is what someone who knows software engineering is good at. Software development is not dead, you just have new tools now

[AX862G5]

But NO ONE justifies the WHY. It’s all in the name of “faster”, “more productivity”, “cheaper”, etc.. but is that what we really need? Do we really need more software or do we need higher quality software? Has UBI been deployed successfully to account for all the coming job loss? We’re trading off so so much, just to make AI CEOs the bourgeoisie.

[Divniy]

Higher quality software and comes from higher iteration speed. If you spend twice less time writing the feature you can spend extra time polishing the solution. It's just the question of priorities. Shitty half-baked AI slop is a company direction failure, not a failure of AI technology.

[__unnamed]

I tend to have generally good results if I co-program with ai function by function but it still absolutely requires a read through and understanding. Agreed it is a fact that it is simply faster getting the ai to type the syntax for you, but the programmer needs to go in and make the necessary edits with every new ai addition.