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Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

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421 points briankelly | 2 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.472s | source
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gsibble ◴[03 Apr 25 21:09 UTC] No.43575450[source]▶
I completely agree, as a fellow senior coder. It allows me to move significantly faster through my tasks and makes me much more productive.

It also makes coding a lot less painful because I'm not making typos or weird errors (since so much code autocompletes) that I spend less time debugging too.

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overgard ◴[04 Apr 25 04:13 UTC] No.43578266[source]▶
I dunno, I just had Copilot sneak in a typo today that took about ten minutes of debugging to find. I certainly could have made a similar typo myself if copilot hadn't done it for me, but, all the same copilot probably saved me a minute worth of typing today but cost me 10 minutes of debugging.
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1. miningape ◴[04 Apr 25 09:07 UTC] No.43579847[source]▶
Even if you made a similar typo you'd have a better understanding of the code having written it yourself. So it likely wouldn't have take 10 minutes to debug.
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2. overgard ◴[04 Apr 25 16:01 UTC] No.43584341[source]▶
Conceptually it was a really simple bug (I was returning a bounding box and it returned (min, min) instead of (min, max)). So, I mean, the amount that AI broke it was pretty minor and it was mostly my fault for not seeing it when I generated it. But you know, if it's messing stuff up when it's generating 4 lines of code I'm not really going to trust it with an entire file, or even an entire function.