Well for one my editor doesn’t support plugins (yet)!. But I have found that learning my editor well enough removed my need for the pesky edits / boilerplate writing offerings of AI. Other than that, I don’t trust it to write anything big, and don’t need it to write anything small.
I’ve tried it a few times and it’s decent for writing unit tests but otherwise often made a mess of things. I understand there’s an art to it but I’m just not interested in putting too much effort into it. I’m always going to go through whatever it generates with a fine toothed comb, so I don’t see it saving me much time anyhow.
I have watched some very senior engineers really dive in with it though, and seemingly with a lot of success.
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Well for one my editor doesn’t support plugins (yet)!. But I have found that learning my editor well enough removed my need for the pesky edits / boilerplate writing offerings of AI. Other than that, I don’t trust it to write anything big, and don’t need it to write anything small.
I’ve tried it a few times and it’s decent for writing unit tests but otherwise often made a mess of things. I understand there’s an art to it but I’m just not interested in putting too much effort into it. I’m always going to go through whatever it generates with a fine toothed comb, so I don’t see it saving me much time anyhow.
I have watched some very senior engineers really dive in with it though, and seemingly with a lot of success.