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i used to lose hours each day to typos, linting issues, bracket-instead-of-curly-bracket, 'was it the first parameter or the second parameter', looking up accumulator/anonymous function callback syntax AGAIN...

idk what ya'll are doing with AI, and i dont really care. i can finally - fiiinally - stay focused on the problem im trying to solve for more than 5 minutes.

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idk what you’re doing but proper IDE was doing that for me for past 15 years or more.

Like I don’t remember syntax or linting or typos being a problem since I was in high school doing Turbo Pascal or Visual Basic.

emacs-nox for 8 years :-)

With all due respect, but if you actually wasted hours (multiple) each (!) day on those issues, then yeah, I can fully believe that AI assisted coding 10 or even 100x'd you.

I uncharitably snarked that AI lets the 0.05X programmers become 0.2X ones, but reading this stuff makes me feel like I was too charitable.

I've never had problems with any of those things after I learned what a code editor was.

Yep, it may be an issue in notepad, which does not have helper like syntax highlighting, auto indent, and line numbers. But I started with IDLE which has all those things. So my next editor was notepad++ and codeblock.

emacs + adhd. the squiggly lines and autocomplete stuff were more distracting than linter/compile errors. rock and a hard place, and ai solved it.

How does AI help you here? Do you pass it a file and tell it to "fix syntax errors, no mistakes!" ??

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