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The senior dev who told me to stop using AI code generators was right and wrong
My coworker Dave, a 20 year veteran at our Austin office, told me last month that relying on GitHub Copilot for refactoring would just create debt. He was right about the first project I tried it on - the generated code was bloated and broke 3 tests. But the second project with a simple CRUD API? Copilot saved me about 4 hours of typing boilerplate. So which is it - do we embrace these tools or treat them like training wheels? What's your rule for when to use AI coding assistants?
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jordanm1916d ago
Kinda feels like it depends way more on what you're building than people want to admit. Dave's not wrong that it can be a mess for complex refactoring where you need to understand every edge case. For boring CRUD stuff though, I'm totally with you, let the robot do the typing and move on to the actual problems.
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davis.dakota16d ago
Heard a dev pod say the same thing @jordanm19, tools are just tools.
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