AI coding tools are amazing and if you don't use them, that's fine. But lots of people, myself included, are finding tremendous utility in these models.

I'm getting 30-50% larger code changes in per day now. Yesterday I plumbed six slightly mechanical, but still major changes through our schema, several microservice layers, API client libraries, and client code. I wrote down the change sites ahead of time to track progress: 54. All requiring individual business logic. This would have been tedious without tab complete.

And that's not the only thing I did yesterday.

I wouldn't trust these tools with non-developers, but in our hands they're an exoskeleton. I like them like I like my vim movements.

A similar analogy can be made for the AI graphics design and editing models. They're extremely good time saving tools, but they still require a human that knows what they're doing to pilot them.

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mplewis 5 days ago | parent [-]

This is a non-sequitur comment.

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echelon 5 days ago | parent [-]

I provided anecdotal evidence, but if you want more I can "show, don't tell" it.

Here's YC's pg that I edited after this week's nano banana release:

https://imgur.com/a/internet-DWzJ26B

I'm not an animator and I made that with a few simple tools.

It has a lot of errors and mistakes that I didn't take the time to correct since it was just a silly meme, but do you see how accessible all of this is?

When people with intention and taste use these tools, the results are powerful. I won't claim that the above videos demonstrate this, but I can certainly do good work with these tools.

I don't see how this is anything short of revolutionary.

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terminalbraid 5 days ago | parent [-]

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echelon 5 days ago | parent [-]

Here's your last comment stating your own opinions from your own experience:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063583

Your commentary is also anecdotal. Why even bother commenting if that's what you believe?

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