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I barely use AI for work but I gotta say that it's the first time I can get some very specific tasks done faster.
I currently make it write code generators, I fix the up and after that I have something better at making boilerplate than these LLMs. Today I had to throw up a bunch of CRUD for a small webapp and it saved me around 1-2 hours.
Yeah forms and very basic HTML its good. Anything complex and you have to take over. Great at saving time, like an intern. But a bit worse in that the intern will typically get better and the ai hasn't really.
That's a great methodology for a new adopter.
Curious if you read about it, or did it out of mistrust for the AI?
I mistrust because it's inaccurate.
help me. I am stuck working in SDET and my job makes me do a cert every 6 months that's "no code" and I need to transition to writing code.
I've been SDET since 2013, in c# and java. I am so fucking sick of selenium and getting manual testing dumped on my lap. I led a test team for a fortune 500 company as a contractor for a project. I can also program in the useless salesforce stack (apex, LWC).
I am the sole breadwinner for my household. I have no fucking idea what to do.
If you're not already messing with mcp tools that do browser orchestration, you might want to investigate that.
For example, if you setup puppeteer, you can have a natural conversation about the website you're working on, and the agent can orchestrate your browser for you. The implication is that the agent can get into a feedback loop on its own to verify the feature you're asking it to build.
I don't want to make any assumptions about additional tooling, but this is a great one in this space https://www.agentql.com/
Early 80s: High level structured languages (Hello COBOL!)
Late 80s: 4th generation languages
At least before that people just assumed everybody that interacted with a computer was a programmer, so managers didn't have a compulsion when hearing the name and decided to fire all programmers.