These articles keep popping up, analyzing an hypothetical usage of AI (and guessing it won’t be useful) as if it wasn’t something already being used in practice. It’s kinda weird to me.
“It won’t deal with abstractions” -> try asking cursor for potential refactors or patterns that could be useful for a given text.
“It doesn’t understand things beyond the code” -> try giving them an abstract jira ticket or asking what it things about certain naming, with enough context
“Reading code and understanding whether it’s wrong will take more time than writing it yourself” -> ask any engineer that saves time with everything from test scaffolding to run-and-forget scripts.
It’s as if I wrote an article today arguing that exercise won’t make you able to lift more weight - every gymgoer would raise an eyebrow, and it’s hard to imagine even the non-gymgoers would be sheltered enough to buy the argument either.
“It won’t deal with abstractions” -> try asking cursor for potential refactors or patterns that could be useful for a given text.
“It doesn’t understand things beyond the code” -> try giving them an abstract jira ticket or asking what it things about certain naming, with enough context
“Reading code and understanding whether it’s wrong will take more time than writing it yourself” -> ask any engineer that saves time with everything from test scaffolding to run-and-forget scripts.
It’s as if I wrote an article today arguing that exercise won’t make you able to lift more weight - every gymgoer would raise an eyebrow, and it’s hard to imagine even the non-gymgoers would be sheltered enough to buy the argument either.