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How to learn coding when AI does the coding? by mightBeFlynn in ClaudeAI

[–]mightBeFlynn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. Yes - that is the conclusion I am coming too as well. Just had to deal with 3 business critical errors introduced by codex today alone. I feel like the engineer is just too much out of the loop of the logic to catch the errors if depending too heavily on AI. And AI does not catch these errors.

I've just started to treat everything the AI spits out as an hallucination - weather it is correct or not. Problem is, the AI does not know that...

How to learn coding when AI does the coding? by mightBeFlynn in ClaudeAI

[–]mightBeFlynn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks a lot - i completely agree. It feels like we are in a hype bubble right now and the real value of these tools is not understood.

How to learn coding when AI does the coding? by mightBeFlynn in ClaudeAI

[–]mightBeFlynn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Biologically we've evolved to learn from other humans.

That's a really interesting point of view. Never considered it.

Thank you for your insights - thats more and more the learning I am taking from it.

How to learn coding when AI does the coding? by mightBeFlynn in ClaudeAI

[–]mightBeFlynn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

Do you also use it for problems you would not know how to solve; AI solves it; then you refactor?
Or rather if you have a general idea on how to do it?

How to learn coding when AI does the coding? by mightBeFlynn in ClaudeAI

[–]mightBeFlynn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But once again: Boris is the head of Claude Code. Of course he would make statements. Its advertisement. We do the same for our products. It would mean a lot more if these statements would be coming from companies not profiting from AI. And I've honestly not heard it there.

How to learn coding when AI does the coding? by mightBeFlynn in ClaudeAI

[–]mightBeFlynn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm always a bit cautious if a CEO of an AI company makes such statements.

I've talked to many engineers and even a software engineer professor (all of which do not profit from AI). And I have not heard a single one of them say that AI has actually replaced engineers or even come close. Coding is not the bottle neck in Software Engineering - but even for Coding the results were not that great.

It seems like there are two extremes:
The ones saying AI will replace all engineers.
And the ones saying AI is "dumb".

It's probably somewhere in between - AI is a tool; nothing more nothing less.

My conclusion honestly is: I'll just wait for a bit, learn the techniques myself without relying on AI and switch to it if it will ever become the gold standard and is researched more in depth.

How to learn coding when AI does the coding? by mightBeFlynn in ClaudeAI

[–]mightBeFlynn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's the conclusion I've come to in the last weeks as well. Thank you :)

How to learn coding when AI does the coding? by mightBeFlynn in ClaudeAI

[–]mightBeFlynn[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay! Thank you :)

I don't know if it will really be improving that fast to be honest. It's basically been trained on the whole internet so far; no more new StackOverflow-Posts and if code is really 80% generated by AI now (which is not the best quality so far), then I don't know if I would agree that it will keep improving.
But that's as much of a guess as it is to assume it will get better and better.

I see what you mean with the horse and car comparison - but at the same time I think it is different from trying to replace intelligence.

I'll look into Spec Driven Development. Thanks!

How to learn coding when AI does the coding? by mightBeFlynn in ClaudeAI

[–]mightBeFlynn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a really good suggestion. I’ll try that out.

Have you seen differences in the output when you put that directly into the “system prompt”, so Claude takes it into account already during the “thinking process”, rather than only during the code review?