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I tried fitting AI into my workloads just as an experiment and failed. It’ll frequently reference APIs that don’t even exist or over engineer the shit out of something could be written in just a few lines of code. Often it would be a combo of the two.

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aloofPenguin@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I had the same experience. Asked a local LLM about using sole Qt Wayland stuff for keyboard input, a the only documentation was the official one (which wasn’t a lot for a noob), no.examples of it being used online, and with all my attempts at making it work failing. it hallucinated some functions that didn’t exist, even when I let it do web search (NOT via my browser). This was a few years ago.

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Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You might genuinely be using it wrong.

At work we have a big push to use Claude, but as a tool and not a developer replacement. And it’s working pretty damn well when properly setup.

Mostly using Claude Sonnet 4.6 with Claude Code. It’s important to run /init and check the output, that will produce a CLAUDE.md file that describes your project (which always gets added to your context).

Important: Review everything the AI writes, this is not a hands-off process. For bigger changes use the planning mode and split tasks up, the smaller the task the better the output.

Claude Code automatically uses subagents to fetch information, e.g. API documentation. Nowadays it’s extremely rare that it hallucinates something that doesn’t exist. It might use outdated info and need a nudge, like after the recent upgrade to .NET 10 (But just adding that info to the project context file is enough).

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Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yeah I mean. It’s not like AI can think. It’s just a glorified text predictor, the same you have on your phone keyboard

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- yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s like having an idiot employee that works for free. Depending on how you manage them, that employee can either do work to benefit you or just get in your way.
  
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  - daikiki@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Only it’s not free. If you run it in the cloud, it’s heavily subsidized and proactively destroying the planet, and if you run it at home, you’re still using a lot of increasingly unaffordable, power and if you want something smarter than the average American politician, the upfront investment is still very significant.
    
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    yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah I’m not buying the “proactively destroying the planet” angle. I’d imagine there’s a lot of misinformation around AI, given that the products surrounding it are mostly Western, like vaccines…
    
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  - BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Not even free, just cheaper than an actual employee for now, but greed is inevitable and AI is computationally expensive, it’s only a matter of time before these AI companies start cranking up the prices.
    
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Fatal@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
At a minimum, the agent should be compiling the code and running tests before handing things back to you. “It references non-existent APIs” isn’t a modern problem.

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yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I create custom embedded devices with displays and I’ve found it very useful for laying things out. Like asking it to take secondly wind speed and direction updates and build a Wind Rose out of it, with colored sections in each petal denoting the speed… it makes mistakes but then you just go back and reiterate on those mistakes. I’m able to do so much more, so much faster.

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