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Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me

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399 points nomdep | 2 comments | 17 Jun 25 00:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.815s | source
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mdavid626 ◴[17 Jun 25 17:02 UTC] No.44301261[source]▶
AI offers many solutions and also brings many problems. Some people like to see only the good side and act, as if there would be no bad side.

One of the biggest problem I see with AI is, that it makes people used to NOT to think. It takes lots of time and energy to learn to program and design complex software. AI doesn’t solve this - humans to be able to supervise need to have these skills. But why would new programmers learn them? AI writes their code! It’s already hard to convince them otherwise. This only leads to bad things.

Technology without proper control and wisdom, destroys human things. We saw this many times already.

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1. maujun ◴[17 Jun 25 17:13 UTC] No.44301380[source]▶
Agreed.

StackOverflow makes it easier not think and copy-paste. Autocomplete makes it easier to not think and make typos (Hopefully you have static typing). Package management makes it easier to not think and introduce heavy dependencies. C makes it easier to not think and forget to initialize variables. I make it easier to not think and read without considering evil (What if every word I say has evil intention and effect?)

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2. mdavid626 ◴[17 Jun 25 17:49 UTC] No.44301802[source]▶
Everything you said, except for Stackoverflow is an abstraction.

Abstractions are making you think of different things. They “hide” some detail and allow you to focus on something else. Of course, the abstraction has its price.

This is true for AI too. The price is the problem.