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I appreciate the transparency that you used AI.
I’m not opposed to those who use it, especially in projects where its used as a tool and not a replacement for human beings.
Same. I think there’s a lot of blanket hate for anyone using LLMs, but at the end of the day, if the completely free, open source projects I use happen to have some assistance from an LLM, or some code is written, reviewed, confirmed to work, not be bloated, or have major security issues, I’d rather that gets pushed to production than expect a maintainer to do even more manual work themselves that they might not be up for.
Finally a voice of reason. My work “mandates” the use of AI, but in reality they just bought everyone subscriptions and it’s up to you how you use it. I’ve found it to be irreplaceable for understanding our giant legacy codebase. I’d rather ask it to grep the codebase a few times and get an answer in 5 minutes than spend 10x the amount of time looking through the code for function calls, definitions, conditional blocks etc. It’s not perfect, but it helps tremendously.
Can you not just use grep yourself?
Not really. The point is not to search for something specific, but rather get a bigger context for the thing you’re trying to understand. AI tools will take your prompt and create keywords to grep the codebase, then analyze the results and give you an overview.
It’s not “find x” and then the AI just does “grep x”. It’s more like “where do susbcribed users get redirected when logging with Google OAuth” and the AI does “grep google|oauth|isSubscriber” and from the 100s of results give you an overview of specific lines of code which are responsible for that chain of events.
I could definitely do that myself (and have, for many years), but this is just faster and easier.