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sublinearyesterday at 6:36 PM3 repliesview on HN

Can we finally just admit that using AI for coding is equivalent (or maybe even slightly inferior) to web search?

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Giving junior devs or non-devs what is essentially automated stackoverflow copypasta on steroids only amplified all the downsides of inexperience that we already learned well over a decade ago.


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revetknyesterday at 7:16 PM

If your position is AI for coding is equivalent or worse than web search, I am curious how you arrived there. I could see that a few years ago, but with the state of the tooling now it is hard for me to understand.

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justincormackyesterday at 6:44 PM

No, its not. Since when did stack overflow or google find and fix thousands of security issues.

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r_leeyesterday at 7:19 PM

this is just false...

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