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It seems I'm the only software engineer on Lemmy who loves having AI. It's not perfect, but it's so much better than doing everything from scratch and it's far more reliable for solving obscure runtime errors than chasing down all the typically dead-end results on a search engine for the stack trace. Or maybe I'm just the only one willing to endure the down votes. Either way, AI has been an exceptional boon in my daily workload.
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I have had a fair amount of success getting AI to do those refactorings, reducing 2000 lines of code to 400, and generating 3000 lines of documentation (including flowcharts) explaining how the 400 lines work, adding 1200 lines of automated testing to prevent regressions, etc. etc.
I started by designing all those files around last September-October timeframe. By November I was realizing: the AI knows better how to make those files than I do, so instead of writing SKILL.md or whatever, I describe to the agent what I want it to configure and explain to me how it's going to do it. It makes SKILL.md for me, I review it - correct the (usually few and far between) things that are misquoting my intent - and tell it to install it. In areas like softtware development that's been working pretty well, and getting more and more invisibly automated by the tools since then.
Claude Opus 4.8 dropped a few weeks back "best graphical understanding ever" - well, I'm trying to use it to do some Blender work, it sucks - it's worse at it than the code writers were in January 2025.