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AI codes like a junior developer
AI downloads kung fu like Neo. Then it codes like a junior developer.
▶Play the video: AI codes like a junior developerAI knows every coding language that’s ever existed. Using it to code websites, apps or systems feels a bit like that scene in The Matrix where he downloads the whole of kung fu and starts fighting.
At best, though, it’s a junior developer. You ask it to do a thing and it does exactly that, word for word, and not very well. Then you check it. Then you tweak it. Then you keep tweaking until you’re about 90% of the way to what you wanted in the first place.
That checking and tweaking is the job. It’s the bit that needs someone who already knows what the result should look like.
So the sell you’re getting on TikTok, that AI writes the code and you’re done, isn’t quite the truth. I don’t believe it ever will be.
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AI is a better coder. It knows every coding language that's ever existed. And when you use it to code websites, or code apps, or systems, it's a bit like that scene in The Matrix where he downloads the whole of Kung Fu and starts fighting. But at best, AI is like a junior developer. You ask it to do a thing and it does it verbatim.
It doesn't do a good job. You then have to go away and check it, and then tweak it, and then keep tweaking until you finally get 90% of the way there to the result that you originally wanted. So, the sell, the argument that TikTok is making isn't quite the truth, and I don't believe it ever will be.