Yeah, I struggle some days to get my AI assistant to produce useful code for medium to hard problems. On the other hand, if I say “Write a Python program to recursively search through our code files and find or change something,” it will work 95% of the time.
My favorite AI success story was a module of c# code that did text overlays on photos. It was written by hand. When we started encountering some issues with the graphics package it was using, I asked the AI (JetBrains in this case) to rewrite the module using a different package. Tedious but relatively straightforward and the results were correct first try. That was what convinced me that (eventually) these type of tools will be great.
Meanwhile, I’m so sick of seeing “my apologies, I misunderstood your request…” after it generates suggestions with non-existent methods, bad logic, or missing parameters.
My favorite AI success story was a module of c# code that did text overlays on photos. It was written by hand. When we started encountering some issues with the graphics package it was using, I asked the AI (JetBrains in this case) to rewrite the module using a different package. Tedious but relatively straightforward and the results were correct first try. That was what convinced me that (eventually) these type of tools will be great.
Meanwhile, I’m so sick of seeing “my apologies, I misunderstood your request…” after it generates suggestions with non-existent methods, bad logic, or missing parameters.