Imagine investing tons of efforts and money into a startup, just to get a clone a week after launch, or worse - before your launch.
- google maps
- power tools
- complex js frameworks
- ORMs
- the electrical grid (outages are a thing)
- and so on…
This isn’t a new problem unique to LLMs.
Practice using the tool intelligently and responsibly, and also work to maintain your ability to function without when needed.
These tools are seriously starting to become actually useful, and I’m sorry but people aren’t lying when they say things have changed a lot over the last year.
Sometime the result is not great, sometimes it requires manual updates, sometimes it just goes into a wrong direction and we just discard the proposal. The good thing is you can initiate such a large change, go get a coffee, and when you're back you can take a look at the changes.
Anyway, overall those tools are pretty useful already.
I've been at it multiple decades. TC $1M+. Forever beginner I guess.
https://youtu.be/1OzxYK2-qsI a 6-12% increase in pull requests per developer per month.
"But those diffs are AI slop and rework" you will object. Oh well, I tried.
Homeopathy works for sure. Placebo works. There are many studies confirming that.
It doesn't matter if you're using AI or not, just like it never mattered if you were using C or Java or Lisp, or using Emacs or Visual Studio, or using a debugger or printf's, or using Git or SVN or Rational ClearCase.
What really matters is in the end is, what you bring to market, and what your audience thinks of your product.
So use all the AI you want. Or don't use it. Or use it half the time. Or use it for the hard stuff, but not the easy stuff. Or use it for the easy stuff, but not the hard stuff. Whatever! You can succeed in the market with AI-generated product; you can fail in the market with AI-generated product. You can succeed in the market with human-generated product; you can fail in the market with human-generated product.