My 2,718281828459045235 Cents - State Of AI: Year 3 of the hype. Things I learned.
People don’t get tired of announcing that AI will replace developers. Mostly salespeople. Microsoft claims that AI is already writing 30–50% of their code. They also admit, that quality of C+ is behind expectations. In 2030 they plan to reach a rate of 95%, though human oversight and authorship remains important. But they are silent about further details. I am not totally disagreeing, but I am pretty sure that there’s still a bumpy road ahead. You may argue: Well, then you don’t know how to properly operate AI. Problem usually sits in front of the screen, as they say. Fair enough. That’s why I want to share some thoughts and experiences.
AI is increasing my efficiency to a very high degree (I am referring to common LLM solutions here, but prefer the term AI, knowing that this can be misleading). But it also requires good skills as a developer. And if you don’t keep your head up, you lose more time “playing around” than you win by using AI.
Speaking of playing around: These days I was just doing that. AI enables me to do this more frequently. It’s so much easier to wrap your head around foreign ground. And it’s fun, without crawling through endless Google search results or SO threads. So I am having this idea of a simple side project, it’s one of those little things I get stuck on. And I was in need of an SVG showing a bike. I asked several LLM to generate one.
