Post #4890010 · Elektrine

2026-09-22 00:40 UTC

I find it can speed me up, but it’s very easy to become lazy and find myself asking the AI to do things I could do perfectly well myself, quickly and using far less electricity. And then before I know it I have a huge pile of slop that I don’t know my way around, and I spend the time on the other end trying to understand and check it all. It feels amazing up front, but you pay later.

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@Seimhe@lemmy.world 2026-09-22 03:22

Yeah, it seems like a new type of judgement is needed that I don’t normally encounter in a day. Like, I use a hammer to hammer nails, then I put it down. I don’t try to cook with it. This tool has a weird, abstract nature to it where you can drift between using / misusing / abusing without necessarily noticing. A strange position to be in while trying to work at the same time .

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@BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 2026-09-22 05:50

For corporate software, there’s so many bugfixes and features, which require so few additions/changes that it’s faster to do it than to write the prompt. But obviously only if you’re able to hold the entire codebase in your skull, but a proficient developer should be able to do so. If people begin outsourcing these changes to LLMs, then they’re cooked and no longer able to verify the output.

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