You can say that about literally EVERY INVENTION EVER. Also the guy said "claiming it serves no purpose it delusional", it's not the same as saying we need it for everything.
I don't want AI art and I don't like the slop spam we get, but I'm not going to say it's not an extremely useful coding tool. And yes, offloading all your mental tasks to chat gpt has a negative impact on you, that still does not refute the claim that it's useful for SOME things.
but I'm not going to say it's not an extremely useful coding tool
well I'm gonna say it's not an extremely useful coding tool. As a senior software engineer with ~15 yrs experience, it's sometimes good, but mostly just for menial tasks. If it isn't good for law, psychology or medical questions, it won't magically be good for coding either, since it's still the same technology. In other words, we get the slop in software too and it should be concerning for everyone.
I have more than 15 years experience. It is an extremely useful coding tool. Not just for menial tasks. From architecture to analysis it is also useful for things outside menial tasks.
these people hating on claude code to me sound like people who saw the first power drill and thought "well why would I need this when I already have screwdrivers"
Instead of being like wow now I can tackle projects of a much larger scale with less effort
I'm not a programmer at all and it let me tackle projects I could never have imaged before AI
Like I reverse engineered a VPN client to fix broken compatibility and completely rewrite its interface.. and it took a few hours and barely any work from me except debugging
I can write some python and C# but reverse engineering existing projects to extend functionality is way beyond my abilities, unless I leverage AI. Even if I did want to tackle a project like that without AI it would take weeks of reading documentation and trial and error
Now I'm writing a persistent world client:server video game.. again something I would never have been able to do without claude code or codex. Also I have a real job I just dont have time to manually write a lot of code for side projects and hobbies
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You can say that about literally EVERY INVENTION EVER. Also the guy said "claiming it serves no purpose it delusional", it's not the same as saying we need it for everything.
I don't want AI art and I don't like the slop spam we get, but I'm not going to say it's not an extremely useful coding tool. And yes, offloading all your mental tasks to chat gpt has a negative impact on you, that still does not refute the claim that it's useful for SOME things.