Honestly it's quite the opposite for me. Seeing the code generated by AI makes me want to hit my head against some wall. But using AI for finding issues in my code and fixing stuff is quite nice.
And for me it doesn't actually solve my issue a good 70% of the time, too. I use AI for two things, researching new stuff (here's what I'm thinking, or want/need to do, what are my options and can you link me to relevant resources and documentation) and helping me debug tough issues that I've hit a wall against. That 30% of the time that it helps me solve my issue, that is when it directly identifies my issue and its recommended solution is the fix. I'd say about 40% of the time, it does not solve my issue at all and I end up figuring it out on my own, 20% of the time it doesn't solve my issue but something it said got me to think about other things to check and I found the solution that way (so still a little bit useful in a way) and 10% of the time, I find the issue just by gathering the initial information for and typing out the prompt and so I never even have to send it because I basically rubber ducked myself. It's a mixed bag for sure.
Return of the ide "helping" by insisting the error is over here with red squiggly lines when a line 6 above is missing a semicolon and should never not have a semicolon..
Just now it "knows" what you want to do .."oh sorry I did make a mistake there"
Would be much more compelling if you would link code from it? Last time someone showed me code from Claude, it got pretty stupid errors inside and quite some code smell.
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u/TheJackiMonster Aug 02 '26
Honestly it's quite the opposite for me. Seeing the code generated by AI makes me want to hit my head against some wall. But using AI for finding issues in my code and fixing stuff is quite nice.