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Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

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421 points briankelly | 1 comments | 03 Apr 25 18:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | 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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cube00 ◴[04 Apr 25 06:03 UTC] No.43578808[source]▶
The vibe bros would have you believe your prompt is at fault and that you need add "don't make typos".
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1. overgard ◴[04 Apr 25 16:10 UTC] No.43584481[source]▶
True, I didn't have five paragraphs on the proper way to handle bounding boxes and the conceptual use of bounding boxes and "please don't confuse lower for upper". All my fault!