> I do wonder if productivity with AI coding has really gone up, or if it just gives the illusion of that, and we take on more projects and burn ourselves out?

It definitely hasn't for me. I spent about an hour today trying to use AI to write something fairly simple and I'm still no further forward.

I don't understand what problem AI is supposed to solve in software development.

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ghurtado 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I don't understand what problem AI is supposed to solve in software development.

When Russians invaded Germany during WWII, some of them (who had never seen a toilet) thought that toilets were advanced potato washing machines, and were rightfully pissed when their potatoes were flushed away and didn't come back.

Sounds like you're feeling a similar frustration with your problem.

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ErroneousBosh 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't really see where that comparison is relevant.

Why is AI supposed to be good?

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lawn 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Russians invading Ukraine had some, let's say interesting, reactions to modernities like toilets and washing machines

	▲	ghurtado 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Which begs the question: how many of those Russians stealing the appliances also took a potato washer or two?

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Philpax 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Apologies for the obligatory question, but what did you try to do, and with which AI did you try to do it with?

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ErroneousBosh 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Well following advice from folk on here earlier, I thought I'd start small and try to get it to write some code in Go that would listen on a network socket, wait for a packet with a bunch of messages (in a known format) come in, and split those messages out from the packet.

I ended up having to type hundreds of lines of description to get thousands of lines of code that doesn't actually work, when the one I wrote myself is about two dozen lines of code and works perfectly.

It just seems such a slow and inefficient way to work.

	▲	timacles an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Hate to pull the skill issue card here, but that is a trivial problem that can be one shotted with almost any model with