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I prefer the term slot machine coding because you keep thinking you almost have a jackpot but there's one lemon in there so you get that rush to keep pulling the lever and expecting different results.
That's a great way of putting it and definitely something I was guilty of doing when this stuff first emerged and I was experimenting with it.
Nowadays, I only use our internal LLM to generate boilerplate or simple scripts that wouldn't take me more than 5-10 minutes to write myself to save some tedium. I think that's what most actual devs/admins do with it nowadays, if they interface with the tech at all.
Oh, 100%. I'm mostly a server admin these days, I don't do much software dev stuff anymore. As such, it's mostly powershell or python scripts. Using a dedicated IDE for fairly small scripts isn't really needed .
This really puts into perspective why everyone seems to be so addicted to asking the AI bullshitter questions. Once again, the problem is gambling