Honestly the biggest problem with #AI coding is that it lets me build things without having to think about what I want to build.
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Honestly the biggest problem with #AI coding is that it lets me build things without having to think about what I want to build. It's happened twice now where the AI coded something perfectly, only for me to realize when I had exactly what I asked for, it wasn't what I needed or really wanted. I usually realize this during the act of building, and the act of building often helps me clarify what it is that I actually want.
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Honestly the biggest problem with #AI coding is that it lets me build things without having to think about what I want to build. It's happened twice now where the AI coded something perfectly, only for me to realize when I had exactly what I asked for, it wasn't what I needed or really wanted. I usually realize this during the act of building, and the act of building often helps me clarify what it is that I actually want.
@fastfinge yeah the whole "programming as theory building" thing
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@fastfinge yeah the whole "programming as theory building" thing
@ireneista @fastfinge Far as AI coding goes, I wonder if GitHub's specify program would help with that? Instead of vibes and vague prompts, it relies on drafting software specifications and using it purely as an implementer. Likely to get more predictable outputs that way.
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@ireneista @fastfinge Far as AI coding goes, I wonder if GitHub's specify program would help with that? Instead of vibes and vague prompts, it relies on drafting software specifications and using it purely as an implementer. Likely to get more predictable outputs that way.
@x0 @fastfinge we're not personally interested in anything of this kind. you're welcome to discuss it but please un-@ us if so.
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@x0 @fastfinge we're not personally interested in anything of this kind. you're welcome to discuss it but please un-@ us if so.
@ireneista @fastfinge Fair enough. I don't plan to use it myself either, although I could certainly do with drafting better specifications.
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Honestly the biggest problem with #AI coding is that it lets me build things without having to think about what I want to build. It's happened twice now where the AI coded something perfectly, only for me to realize when I had exactly what I asked for, it wasn't what I needed or really wanted. I usually realize this during the act of building, and the act of building often helps me clarify what it is that I actually want.
@fastfinge You may already know this trick, but in just in case, I sometimes ask the agent to help me create a project requirements document first. I toss in what I want in terms of UI, behavior, potential platform/language/dependency info, and can find out fairly quickly, based on the result, where I've thought the idea out well enough to start coding it.
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@ireneista @fastfinge Far as AI coding goes, I wonder if GitHub's specify program would help with that? Instead of vibes and vague prompts, it relies on drafting software specifications and using it purely as an implementer. Likely to get more predictable outputs that way.
@x0 I haven't looked into it, yet. But maybe? -
@fastfinge You may already know this trick, but in just in case, I sometimes ask the agent to help me create a project requirements document first. I toss in what I want in terms of UI, behavior, potential platform/language/dependency info, and can find out fairly quickly, based on the result, where I've thought the idea out well enough to start coding it.
@sclower I suspect it would work better if I wrote the project requirements document myself. Then fed it into the AI for implementation. Maybe it would shift me from thinking "What do I want coded" and towards "What are my requirements". I tend to start thinking too low level, about what libraries I want to use and what language, when I still haven't one hundred percent laid out what I want to do. The example that prompted me to post was reformatting a set of files. If I'd have thought just a bit harder about what I actually needed, I would have ended up with three regular expressions and a batch script, not a C# DotNet app. -
Honestly the biggest problem with #AI coding is that it lets me build things without having to think about what I want to build. It's happened twice now where the AI coded something perfectly, only for me to realize when I had exactly what I asked for, it wasn't what I needed or really wanted. I usually realize this during the act of building, and the act of building often helps me clarify what it is that I actually want.
@fastfinge I fucked around with it, ended up with a web app task manager with about 200% more aria labels than needed, fixing that broke it repeatedly. So I ended up starting refreshing and improving my html and css knowledge. i still have no clue why I had it made…
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@fastfinge I fucked around with it, ended up with a web app task manager with about 200% more aria labels than needed, fixing that broke it repeatedly. So I ended up starting refreshing and improving my html and css knowledge. i still have no clue why I had it made…
@fastfinge On another note, does anyone need a web app task manager with 200% more aria than needed?
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