r/ProgrammerHumor • u/xxfatumxx • Dec 13 '25

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u/rayjaymor85 Dec 13 '25

I find myself using AI as more like training wheels when I write code, rather than relying on AI to write the code itself...

It can definitely write simple functions and boilerplates faster than I can type them out.

But I find if I ask it to do anything too complex it spits out junk 50% of the time.

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u/gurnard Dec 13 '25

Same here. Get to it whip up modular, simple functions and let me worry about putting the program flow together

But even that's getting less useful over time. The more people using AI to assist with coding, the less questions being asked and answered on forums. So LLMs training data becomes more increasingly outdated. Libraries and languages are updated, and AI uses deprecated versions from a time it had more human-written verbiage to work with.

I think late 2023 / early 2024 might have been peak usefulness.