alt Hacker News> However often the best way to handle grunt work is to write better abstractions, something AI sucks at.
If you checked out of ai in 2023 then this is true. It’s simply not true anymore. If you struggle then it’s a skill issue not an AI issue
> However often the best way to handle grunt work is to write better abstractions, something AI sucks at.
If you checked out of ai in 2023 then this is true. It’s simply not true anymore. If you struggle then it’s a skill issue not an AI issue
As someone who spends way too much time searching for the best abstractions, absolutely this is still true.
I often have a long back and forth with codex to explore the problem space and settle on the best abstractions. Occasionally it will make a suggestion that helps me, but for the most part it's reviewing while I'm in the driver's seat.
Contrast this to simply giving it a function name and a vague description of what the function will do. I'll generally accept its output with a few refinements.
But for larger project structure and metaphors, it falls flat, and often lands on a solution that's going to be a maintenance nightmare or result in endless repetition across not-quite-the-same cases. I've never seen it happen upon an appropriate abstraction that can cleanly cut through the nonsense.