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Will AI replace iOS devs? I am getting worried about the hype.
  • I think the current issue is if you train something to write code and poetry and recipes etc. it's going to reduce your accuracy at each task.

    But as you say we'll see.

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    Will AI replace iOS devs? I am getting worried about the hype.
  • Like most automations they'll never replace us fully. But we're already seeing productivity boosts that will mean not as many people are needed.

    Kind of like how excel massively reduced how many accountants you need.

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    Will AI replace iOS devs? I am getting worried about the hype.
  • LLMs are general purpose, basically for demonstration purposes. This is basically generation 0.

    Once they can optimize the training process more, which is something being heavily researched, you'll be able to create ones for specific languages or even frameworks.

    Dedicated hardware will be another huge boost.

    Then they'll start to be amazing.

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    Not a fan of the #AI hype at all, but #RustRover new full line code completion feature is impressive
  • I feel people who complain about LLMs really don't use them correctly.

    I use them a lot at work. But generally as a learning tool or interactive docs rather than a code generator.

    I've found them to be incredibly useful.

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    Are adults really not supposed to financially helps their old parents?
  • In the UK unless your parents are particularly poor it is not that common to support them.

    We have a socialised pension that most should be able to live on. And most people have private or government pensions as well.

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    AI-Generated Code is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businesses
  • I've found they're great as a learning tool where decent docs are available. Or as an interactive docs you can ask follow up questions to.

    We mostly use c# and it's amazing at digging into the MS docs to pull out useful things from the bcl or common patterns.

    Our new juniors got up to speed so fast by asking it to explain stuff in the existing codebases. Which in turn takes pressure off more senior staff.

    I got productive in vuejs in a large codebase in a couple days that way.

    Using to generate actual code is insanely shit haha It is very similar to just copy pasting code and hacking it in without understanding it.

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    Why I Prefer Exceptions to Error Values
  • I think with http request failures losing the status code can be a real pain. There's a big difference between 400, 401, 404 and 500 for instance.

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    Safe C++
  • I wouldn't call bad readability a loaded gun really. Your dev tools will hopefully make it pretty easy to learn the type. It should be a minor inconvenience at best.

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