| ▲ | davydm a day ago | |
Simply put, the tools are not at the level the grifters want you to believe. You'll always find someone claiming to have made a thing with ai alone, and some of these may even work to an extent, but the reality is that the models have zero understanding, so if you're looking to replicate something that already exists (or exists in well defined, open source parts), you're going to get further than if you're thinking truly outside the box. Then there's library and framework churn. AI models aren't good with this (as evidenced by the hours I wanted trying to get any model to help me through a webpack4 to webpack5 upgrade. There was no retained context and no understanding, so it kept telling me to ado webpack4 things that don't work in 5). So if you're going to make something that's easily replicated in a well-dpcunented framework with lots of stack overflow answers, you might get somewhere. Of course, you could have gotten then yourself with those same inputs, and, as a bonus, you'd actually understand what was done and be able to fix the inevitable issues, as well as extend with your own functionality. If you're asking for something more niche, you have to bring a lot more to the table, and you need a fantastic bullshit detector as the model will confidently lead you down the wrong path. Simply put, ai is not the silver bullet it's sold as, and the lack of app explosion is just more evidence on that pile. | ||
| ▲ | callc a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Then there's library and framework churn. AI models aren't good with this (as evidenced by the hours I wanted trying to get any model to help me through a webpack4 to webpack5 upgrade. There was no retained context and no understanding, so it kept telling me to ado webpack4 things that don't work in 5). I experienced this too asking LLM to help with a problem with a particular Arduino board. Even with being a very popular microcontroller, it is probably giving blended answers from the 15 other types of Arduino boards, not the one I have. | ||
| ▲ | smokel a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> so if you're looking to replicate something that already exists I find that most software development falls squarely into this category. | ||