"AI can code" is like "my dog can play piano". Yes, I have proof, look it's hitting the keys and we can hear a sound. Dogs can play piano. AI can code.

And the dog doesn’t even require an internet connection for that!

Shakespear typewritters monkeys....

It just does what you do but 1000x faster, copy and paste from google ;P

@Lensflare To be fair neither does AI ;P

Honestly, I still don't get all those devs claiming that AI writes complete working code for them. The claim that 42% of code was AI-assisted in 2024 makes more sense to me, as I never, ever got any code output longer than 3 lines from AI without at least one error.

Surely, I'm just to stupid to prompt and everyone else is now a 10x developer thanks to AI.

@devux-bookmark I can go to chat gpt 5 (the free version) and ask "make me a website that does XYZ with a python backend and frontend" (include additional details of the project as needed) and I'll get one

I've even done it with qwen-coder for isspam and added it as a new one because it performs pretty good

I ran into a pretty interesting issue recently.

If it's a system that is well-documented, but has not much example code available (in my case, some Oracle database package that is well documented but seldom used) it hallucinates like a motherfucker!

The reason? It has nothing to copy, and instead must think. Which, of course, it's poor at doing and always will be.

@devux-bookmark my prompts take hours. How long does yours take? Also, the AI (in case of claude) does exactly what you want (especially when you tell him to) and you just have to describe literally everything. And it simply does what you say. I do not have much difference between code I wrote myself and AI. AI is actually doing it a way better, more exception handling and such. Just invest more time in it, finetune your self written prompt with AI, to ask what is unclear about it, update your prompt until everything is clear and you won't get surprises. I do use this technique a lot and I once had like 50 answers to give. So 50 things would've been unclear and thus i would've had a completely unexpected result if i did not let review my prompt with the AI. You actually don't want the AI to make any decision. You do yourself, but you have to be specific about it. Consider it like this: would a different person understand your explaination? Explain it as to an junior.