ProgrammingWithAI

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There's already a page called ComputerAidedProgramming

But this page is more about my experience and thoughts using AI as a co-programmer.

Tl;dr : I am sold! I was born to write code this way! To have higher level conversations with the AI about architecture and interfaces etc. And to focus on inventing new ideas and trying to explain them to the AI in a mix of natural language and formal notation.

I love it.

Transcluded from ProgrammersVsAI

A slightly comical tweet stream I wrote here https://mobile.twitter.com/interstar/status/1581981000711966722

You see THIS is why you should never write documentation.
Artists are fucked by AI because there's a huge meta-database mapping text descriptions to pictures.
But programmers are smart. We've resisted the siren calls of documentation and LiterateProgramming ...so there's a relatively impoverished database of plain text descriptions to viable code out there. And jobs are safe.
GithubCopilot is clever, but it's still writing unnecessary snippets of boilerplate that should have been abstracted away from decades ago.
There's no reason AI couldn't learn to translate English descriptions to full applications. Except we don't have good English descriptions of the codebases we have.
And I don't see that situation changing soon.

Boy was I wrong about this. In 2023 and beyond I use ChatGPT (and now CursorEditor) to help me program all the time.