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[–] arc99@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

All AIs are the same. They're just scraping content from GitHub, stackoverflow etc with a bunch of guardrails slapped on to spew out sentences that conform to their training data but there is no intelligence. They're super handy for basic code snippets but anyone using them anything remotely complex or nuanced will regret it.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

One of my mates generated an entire website using Gemini. It was a React web app that tracks inventory for trading card dealers. It actually did come out functional and well-polished. That being said, the AI really struggled with several aspects of the project that humans would not:

  • It left database secrets in the code
  • The design of the website meant that it was impossible to operate securely
  • The quality of the code itself was hot garbage—unreadable and undocumented nonsense that somehow still worked
  • It did not break the code into multiple files. It piled everything into a single file
[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

I've used agents for implementing entire APIs and front-ends from the ground up with my own customizations and nuances.

I will say that, for my pedantic needs, it typically only gets about 80-90% of the way there so I still have to put fingers to code, but it definitely saves a boat load of time in those instances.