I keep reading that the “right way” to use AI for coding is to treat it like a team of junior developers

[natep@hachyderm.io]

I keep reading that the “right way” to use AI for coding is to treat it like a team of junior developers.

Wow, every developer’s dream: writing less code, managing more people, and reviewing lots of poorly written code. And with the added bonus that the “junior devs” you are pouring all this time into, will never improve as a result of your efforts.

[drajt@fosstodon.org]

@natep a good summary.

I've found Google Gemini a bit like talking to a mate at the pub. It does a good job at understanding stuff but often talks bollocks. However I've found it does make good suggestions too, but if you don't know the topic yourself you wouldn't know which suggestion was sane and which was a hallucination.

I've used it to debug network config and it can spot typos and stupid errors, and at times made good suggestions. It also proposed stupid things too...