lol.

lol. so a lot of the high valuations for AI coding assistants are not because this shit works. No, it's because the companies are selling their users' usage data to the bigger AI vendors for training.

@davidgerard the thing is, it does work and it works well if you know how to guide it. But, the hype has been that it's easy to replace tech staff with lower paid, less experienced devs and achieve better results. That is the problem. The current reality is that experienced devs can accomplish tasks faster with AI coding tools and jr devs don't trust it because most of them, at least those who will last in the field realize their own limitations to analyze what the bot provided. Also, even as an experienced dev it is super frustrating to watch the bot try all the things you already thought of that won't work. It's like it's trying every stack overflow post it was trained on until it gets to something that builds and then confidently reports success even though it missed the actual requirements.