Is AI demotivating your will to code?

Question

I'm beginning to feel what's the point in coding anything algorithmic anymore. I can just fire up GitHub Copilot or whatever and it'll do it faster and likely better.It's like a dying craft now and it's so ironic because the whole beauty of software was to automate things.Maybe it's me realizing that coding was never the important part.

GianFabien · Accepted Answer

Call me a slower learner, I won't bite.I've tried Copilot, Bing, Chat-GPT4, etc. I spend ages "prompt engineering" to get scraps of barely acceptable code. Then when I paste the bits together it still doesn't get the job done properly.IMHO AI is scavenging code from all over the internet. It might be excellent at doing leet code, but when you get to the level of application domain knowledge and environment specifics it is easier to just DIY.The recent tweaking of Google Gemini must surely be more "programming" not directed learning.

Joe_Boogz · Answer

I&rsquo;ve found the opposite, it makes tedious tasks like looking up how a specific powershell function works, easy.Hmm I can&rsquo;t remember how to read a file into xml in powershell&hellip; ask gpt and save yourself 15 minutes

philipswood · Answer

Have you tried? Because it doesn't.