I tried using a new AI tool that writes code for you versus just using the old auto-complete in my editor, and it's not even close.

Last month, I was building a simple web scraper in Python. I spent an hour with the standard auto-complete in VS Code, piecing it together. Then I tried one of these new AI coding assistants. I gave it a plain English prompt: 'get the titles from this news site, skip the ads, and save to a csv.' It wrote the whole script in about 30 seconds, and it worked on the first try. The old way just guesses the next word. The new way understands what you're actually trying to do. Has anyone else made a switch like this and found it actually changed how you work?

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robin59425d ago

So when do we start calling our old editors ancient history?

derek_singh24d ago

It's ancient when you need a YouTube tutorial just to open the file, lmao. We're basically digital archaeologists now.

johnr7325d ago

I still have a copy of WordPerfect 5.1 on a floppy disk somewhere, robin594. That feels like finding a stone tablet with chisel marks. My old copy of Notepad seems modern by comparison. We can call them ancient history when the install file fits on a single disk, no internet needed.