@stillwritescode@dinbuilds I don’t know if I’d fully agree. While I’m writing things manual I’m simultaneously getting familiar with the codebase and tracing everything.
Codex feels like being thrown into someone else’s stuff and feels slower to me.
@HackingBaseball@dinbuilds You always had to read your code when writing it manually so even if you use codex and read all of its output you’re still iterating faster
I am doing a fair bit of it this morning. Deep in the weeds trying to grok what was put in place and how to make do what I actually want it to do..
Sometime it's just flat out better to get in there, poke around, understand it, and fix it. Also fixing a bunch of ugly code while I'm there.
@HackingBaseball Me. I've actually read my contract, and my NDA, and the relevant legal requirements in the tenders that we've won. No shipping AI-generated code for me.
@Hacktivate16708 Friend of mine worked with a lady who was still doing office work on paper and some crazy old obsolete technology that was like 30 years old.
It was a problem but she had been there forever and was so deeply entrenched they just let her do it.
@HackingBaseball If people are still handwriting the majority their code then they aren’t coding right or they work in an old and afraid company
I can’t remember the names of the companies that still do accounting with pen and paper, but I’m pretty sure they don’t exist
I am. My boss, a lawyer, just told me how he coded a new version of their timesheet app. He let Claude publish straight to GitHub, and then to a web app on Azure. My boss never touches the code locally.
I would feel unneeded in that loop. The app works, on web and mobile, and you can upload a receipt and attach it to an expense item.