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Originally Posted by kacir
Have you actually tried to us the AI for coding?
I have and I have been astonished how well it did work.
You have to write a good prompt. . . .
Just do not run the script or a command on a production system without a backup. And do not run things you do not understand how they are supposed to work. Also, take everything it produces with a healthy dose of skepticism. You should do that anyway, even if you get an answer from a person.
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Originally Posted by kacir
I have friends that are professional coders and their big-name software house employer pays for private instance of Claude AI for them to use it at work.
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Me too, a couple of ex USSR software engineers who worked in my team. Most of their current employer's clients are ITC enterprises, who also use AI… as a result support requests have declined dramatically over the past couple of years.
Last week I wanted to know how many parliamentarians sit in India's federal, state and territory legislatures - Gemini produced the answer (5,013) in a couple of seconds. I asked for a list in a csv file along with the number of eligible voters each represents, within a couple of minutes I had a csv file on my desktop.
It would have taken me hours do the same with search, copy and paste… realistically I wouldn't have done it.
This week I tasked MS CoPilot with creating a script to export and import MS Word's Autocorrect First letter Capitalise Exceptions list as xml. Why? So that I could more easily remove a lot of spurious entries.
Got it right first time… didn't look at the code, used it and binned it. I shouldn't need it again… now that I've unchecked the option that was
updating the Capitalize first letter of sentences exceptions list automatically.
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