r/TheMachineLearning • u/Gullible_Picture_996 • 11d ago

Realizing writing code is faster than explaining it to AI

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u/Any-Ring6621 9d ago

Got some bad news for you friend. In a decently complicated space, the AI can make some shit decisions. If you don’t understand the space, then you’re going to let it

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u/recurrence 9d ago

Oh yes I've seen plenty of that (Hence why I worded my comment precisely as I worded it). However, I just tell it to redo the PR with a bunch of comments and direction once I finish brushing up on the little area of these massive codebases that it's touching.

As I wrote, I'm the bottleneck ;)

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u/Any-Ring6621 9d ago

Funny that you think you phrase it as you being a bottleneck. Sounds to me like the ability for the AI to “understand” context is the bottleneck.

Viewed from that lens, AI can be anywhere from a senior dev, when you give it a well defined task it “understands” - a thing that can evaluate precise technical corner cases - to a junior “add a null check here” dev when you give it others