Martin Seeger@masek@infosec.exchange
If you come with a complex problem to an experienced coder, he will ask you a lot strange questions.
He doesn't just want to spit out the code you requested, but to understand the core problem.
Usually those questions will annoy you. It will make your problem uglier and dirtier than you thought and will ruin the beautiful solution you have in mind. But that approach gives you the chance to get you a real solution.
The AI doesn't ask you all those pesky questions. It doesn't want to understand the problem and just spits out code.
I understand the appeal of that ... and the risks.
Chris Mills@ambientspace@cloudisland.nz
@masek@infosec.exchange there were two questions I was regularly asked when I was new to coding and asked for help from my colleagues: “what are you really trying to do?” and “do we really need to do that?”.
I have found these two simple questions to be applicable to coding and pretty much everything else.