0.5x Dev.
These kinds of brainlets fundamentally don’t understand computing or why anyone would actually care about how to craft computing. They are the guys (and it is always men) that will write O(n^x) algorithms, in dynamic languages, and complain about needing more/bigger hardware. Before there were LLMS, these were the dudes that would copypasta an error into some chat or forum without actually reading/understanding the error or copypasta code from the first stack overflow answer.
They aren’t interested in computing, only money. These people should not be in our industry. They make everything worse for everyone else. That irritating bug in that SaaS product that your company makes you use? Written by THAT guy. Hell, maybe you even work with THAT guy. Other highly skilled labor all has gates and gatekeepers to minimize the amount of THAT guy. Wanna practice law? Pass that bar exam. Wanna practice medicine. Where is your medical license? Wanna engineer bridges? Also need that license. But software doesn’t have that. So we end up with way more THAT guys, just like the mouth breather in this post. They shouldn’t be writing software. And nothing exposes these bro coders better than when they express their shitty opinions on how awesome these AI tools are for writing code. It is the literal embodiment of Dunning-Kruger.
I’ve been coding for like… 25 years, mostly professionally.
I’ve been learning game development on and off for years and just started with Godot and c#. I use deepseek and chatgpt sometimes because I know what I want to do just not the best syntax to do it (and throw in having to avoid dynamic stuff for iOS’ AoT compiler)
Both frequently forget the language, library, task or context. Context is ok, but asking for how to do X in Y and it gives you an answer predicated on using Z (which l, due to unfamiliarity you don’t find out until after starting to implement it) sucks.
I get a slightly easier day when it works. But I’ve lost days of time to it fucking with me. Eventually you become so wary that it really is just a glorified search engine now. I tell it show me X and only the code, that seems to be the fastest way to get what I need and confirm it’s not hallucinating a different environment or whatever.
People with less experience in general will suffer far worse because those pitfalls won’t be obvious to them.
GPT got worse with the most recent update, answers ignore large chunks of the prompt and as they distill further I think that will get worse.
Tl;Dr AI isn’t very good at programming and seems to have gotten worse (at least with specific questions Vs general ones)
