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AI is solid for kicking off learning a language or framework you've never touched before.

But in my day to day I'm just writing pure Go, highly concurrent and performance-sensitive distributed systems, and AI is just so wrong on everything that actually matters that I have stopped using it.

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But so is a good book. And it costs way less. Even though searching may be quicker, having a good digest of a feature is worth the half hour I can spend browsing a chapter. It’s directly picking an expert brains. Then you take notes, compare what you found online and the updated documentation and soon you develop a real understanding of the language/tool abstraction.

In an ideal world, yeah. But most software instructional docs and books are hot garbage, out of date, incorrect, incomplete, and far too shallow.

Are you reading all the books on the market? You can find some good recommendation lists. No need to get every new releases from Packtpub.

I knew you were up to jab Packt XD I have yet to find a good book from Packt it may be exist. My fav publishers are manning and nostarch press

I’m using Go to build a high performance data migration pipeline for a big migration we’re about to do. I haven’t touched Go in about 10 years, so AI was helpful getting started.

But now that I’ve been using it for a while it’s absolutely terrible with anything that deals with concurrency. It’s so bad that I’ve stopped using it for any code generation and going to completely disable autocomplete.

AI has stale knowledge I won't use it for learning, especially because it's biased towards low quality JS repos on which has been trained on

A good example would be Prometheus, particularly PromQL for which the docs are ridiculously bare, but there is a ton of material and stackoverflow answers scattered al over the internet.

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