• garretble@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    I had a bit of a breakthrough with some personal growth with my code today.

    I learned a bit more about entity framework that my company is using for a project, and was able to create a database table, query it, add/delete/update, normal CRUD stuff.

    I normally work mostly on front end code, so it was rewarding to learn a new skill and see the data all the way from the database to the UI and back - all my code. I felt great after doing a code review this afternoon to make sure I wasn’t missing anything, and we talked about some refactoring to make it better.

    AI will never give you that.

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      No, but it can help a capable developer to have more of those moments, as one can use LLMs and coding agents to (a) help explain the relationships in a complicated codebase succinctly and (b) help to quickly figure out why one’s code doesn’t work as expected (from simple bugs to calling out one’s own fundamental misunderstandings), giving one more time to focus on what matters to oneself.

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        giving one more time to focus on what matters to oneself.

        Is that been an insufferable prick online? Because I assure you no one wants you to spend more time on that, you spend enough time on that as it is.

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          Hm? Oh, I obviously misread the room. It seems I interrupted a circle jerk? My apologies.