The AI Investment Boom

Why does every hype article start with this. Personally my copilot usage has gone down while coding. I tried and tried but it always gets lost and starts spitting out subtle bugs that takes me more time to debug than if i had written it myself.

I always have this feeling of 'this might fail in production in unknown ways' because i might have missed checking the code throughly . I know i am not the only one, my coworkers and friends have expressed similar feelings.

I even tried the new 'chain of thought' model, which for some reason seems to be even worse.

but i would never push llm generated code. never.

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edit to add some substance:

if it’s someone who

* does a lot of manual local testing

* adds good unit / integration tests

* writes clear and well documented PRs

* knows the code style, and when to break it

* tests themselves in a staging environment, independent of any QA team or reviews

* monitors the changes after they’ve gone out

* has repeatedly found things in their own PRs and asked to hold off release to fix them

* is reviewing other people’s PRs and spotting things before they go out

yea, sure, i’ll release the changes. they’re doing the auditing work for me.

they clearly care about the software. and i’ve seen enough to trust them.

and if they got it wrong, well, shit, they did everything good enough. i’m sure they’ll be on the ball when it comes to rolling it back and/or fixing it.

an llm does not do those things. an llm *does not care about your software* and never will.

i’ll take people who give a shit any day of the week.