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Has AI helped you in programming faster? 

Maybe the time you spent debugging has now cut down etc.

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ENS addict. Javascript dev learning the ropes. Builder of Digit Rarity(dot)com.

AI has been more useful to me as a learning tool by being able to explain code, give super specific examples, and spot mistakes. 

It's like having a mentor that sometimes hallucinates or makes things up just to mess with you

It's been amazing for a lot of "glue" code for me - shell scripts, kubeconfigs, linux one-liners, boilerplate code 

For complex stuff it's extremely hit or miss. I noticed it's terrible with Rust code, okay-ish for Go code, and best (but not great) for Python 

I'm hoping to try gpt-4 turbo preview to see if better

100% for things like logging or boilerplate interface/function definitions it’s been amazing.

Not so much debugging but it has certainly made it easier for me to get started with and be productive in languages I’m not super well versed in. Generally speaking, if I know the shape of the program I’m writing I can ask an LLM for the syntax and basically translating natural language to a specific language.