Just to clarify, I google a lot while coding, but one thing I learnt from my engineering degree is that is there is no ‘best’ solution.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    2 days ago

    legitimate question.

    how do you expect humans to maintain a project that didn’t base its patterns and organization on human thought patterns and organizational strategies?

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      2 days ago

      I don’t. Like I said, it needs a lot of tweaking and the only time I have it do more than laying down the base for a function is at the beginning of a new project that’s not too important (like personal projects). I end up rewriting nearly everything anyway but it helps with getting over that initial overwhelmed feeling when staring in a blank file

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        2 days ago

        different strokes for different folks. I enjoy a fresh clean project that I can start with. I hate picking up someone else’s mess so using AI in that manner completely goes against what I enjoy as a dev.

        it originally sounded to me like you were having AI generate the hierarchy and project structure, but it sounds like you’re just using it to generate file templates.

        Thanks for the insight.

        • irelephant [he/him]
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          2 days ago

          Same, writing from scratch is so much easier than trying to parse soup code that I or someone else made a while ago.