Ben Kamens / Code with AI the Hard Way
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Code with AI the Hard Way
How are you using AI to code? This comes up a lot when two software developers are talking. I hear a lot of “that’s a new one” or “haven’t heard that before” when giving my answer, so I decided to share how I code with AI the Hard Way. The Hard Way By “the Hard Way” I mean: Using any and every AI editor, agent, autocomplete, and army of robots that serve at your pleasure to generate code * , and… …then physically typing out every character of every line of code they suggest † rather than accepting their work. * These are incredible tools from sci-fi dreams, I’m having the most fun I’ve ever ha
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