AI can absolutely save you time, if you use it right. Don’t expect it to magically be as good as a real programmer… but for instance I made an HTML visualisation of some stuff using Claude, and while it got it a bit wrong, fixing it took me maybe 20 minutes, while writing it from scratch would have taken me at least a couple of hours.
I guess for some simple stuff it can work fine, but the majority of the code I write is not at all simple, and it’s all highly dependent on the libraries I’ve written, which the AI is really bad at learning.
And then in terms of documentation, it is just hopelessly inept.
AI can absolutely save you time, if you use it right. Don’t expect it to magically be as good as a real programmer… but for instance I made an HTML visualisation of some stuff using Claude, and while it got it a bit wrong, fixing it took me maybe 20 minutes, while writing it from scratch would have taken me at least a couple of hours.
That’s a very “you” statement.
For all we know, AI cannot in any way save this developer time.
Some developers know their area so well that there’s no reason for them to waste time dictating non-code into a guessing machine.
I guess for some simple stuff it can work fine, but the majority of the code I write is not at all simple, and it’s all highly dependent on the libraries I’ve written, which the AI is really bad at learning.
And then in terms of documentation, it is just hopelessly inept.