As an experienced dev who’s gotten his feet wet a little with AI, I feel like , and does anyone else feel this way, that I spend more time telling AI what to do than it would spend actually writing this all out myself?
> AI systems do not currently speed up many or most software developers
> AI systems in the near future will not speed up developers in our exact setting
> There are not ways of using existing AI systems more effectively to achieve positive speedup in our exact setting
I spend ages crafting the perfect prompt only to cross my fingers and hope that the output is what I want it to be when I could have just spent all that time actually crafting the document exactly as I want it to be in the first place. Often I then need to spend more time editing and tweaking the output from the AI anyway.
I’m honestly starting to feel a little crazy because I’m the only one at my workplace that sees it this way.
It is nice as a tool to help solve some hairy stuff sometimes.
It's just really hard to convert requirements to English when there are a bunch of land mines in there that you know how to avoid.