[admars]

we've been told we need to embrace AI at work, and tools like chatgpt and claude are amazing when you get the hang of them.

there was something I was struggling with, googling what I wanted gave me similar scenarios, but i still couldn't get the anwer to my question /figure out how to achieve my goal

went to chat gpt

this is the situation
this is what i have
this is what i want to get out

it told me what i was doing wrong, what i needed to change, what i needed to change it to, and explained it all to me

something else I needed a task done, typed some ideas into claude, gave me a proof of concept, i could then tune that to how i wanted it, or I could alter the prompts.

the AI tools are great, talking to a developer at work, he said it's change the way he works, and cut so much time. yes there is the risk that some jobs go, but some will change, rather than being primarily coders, they'll be prompters

BUT they still need to know and understand code to check it's doing what it's doing, and fix the bugs it doesn't fix itself.

he said the big difference he has found is if changers are required later.
if he or a colleague wrote the original, he would know where to make the changes what to do, but the AI generated versions can be harder to make changes later.

it's a useful tool, search engines are useful tools, libraries are useful