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I 10x’d my Coding Productivity Using this AI Tool: I wish I had known it Earlier 🤯

Nevo David on July 22, 2024

I usually work on multiple projects simultaneously, and managing all these projects can become very hectic and overwhelming. So, I wanted a solutio...
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Roy (FlippingCoin)

And not a single example of what it achieved? I really doubt this tool boosting anyone's production by 10 times. And I highly doubt it can pick up any issue and resolve it itself.

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Nathan Hedglin

This is Dev.to where no one can actually code. Where teenagers think they know more than professionals.

Unfortunately, 10X of 0 is still 0.

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Saurabh Rai

New AI Agent in the town.
How does this hold up with tasks like scraping data out of a document, running Python analytics, and then outputting them in a doc file?

I'm looking for something that can do that.

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Nevo David

It's great!
You should try it out!

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Saurabh Rai

Sure, cloning already. ^^

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Tensor Programming • Edited

How much of a vested interest do you have in this particular project? This article is an advertisement. It's nonsense...

You show no proof that it increased your productivity 10x... In fact, you show no code at all, which makes me wonder if you can even write code in the first place. I suppose you could get a 10x improvement on your productivity if you are barely productive in the first place because you're an advertiser/vc and not an engineer.

You know Devin was a farce right? All of the videos they used to show off its "functionality" were proven to be faked. That you even reference it in this article shows your priorities...

If you want to shill the latest AI nonsense then at least put some effort into it. Make it seem like it's got some legitimate use cases outside of stealing other people's code to make surface level garbage...

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Abdulrahim

Deep!.

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raddevus

Interesting that this is the article which gets huge upvotes on Dev.to.
Is it an indication of the future? Probably.

Just something to think about.

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Nevo David

You find the article not good?

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raddevus • Edited

No, it's not that I don't think the article is good -- and I don't think the article is bad.
I just find it interesting that on a site devoted to Articles About Software Development (and learning software dev) that one of the most highly upvoted articles :

  1. has no code
  2. shows you how to use a "code generator"
  3. explains no code at all, but how to use a utility

Imagine if I told you, you were going to be a programmer then showed you how to record a macro in MS Word. That's the kind of feel this has.

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Abdulrahim

Spot on analogy.

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Andreas

For me, the article is misleading Nevo, I am sorry. It does not explain what the capabilities offered by an SWE agent are, what are the practical advantages of swekit over competing products, or how the productivity is tenfold enhanced.

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John Mercier

This is why I stop using this site.

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Denys Bochko • Edited

I am using Tabnine Pro version for my dev work (primarily PHP now, but adding Python and javascript to the mix soon)
It is a hit-and-miss scenario: sometimes it really helps write some parts of the code faster, but sometimes the suggestions are very inaccurate.
I believe that if you are an experience dev you will use it to do small repetitive things that are tiresome to type, but to create logic... AI has a long way to go, especially in frameworks and complex structures.
So, I don't know if 10x faster will be possible even in the future, AI is creating logic based on predefined parameters, but humans are more flexible and can merge several scenarios to create something that will work in this particular case.
I find AI assistant works very well with migrations and shorter assignments.

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Maria Blair

This article has a very abrupt ending. The author introduces a very promising new tool (thanks for that, of course), and I'm ready/excited to see what it can do, but the article just ends! It would be great if you included some examples of how it improved your productivity exactly. Otherwise, it's very unclear and seems like an ai-generated ad.

As a full-time programmer, I'm of course on a lookout for the new great tools, and I appreciate the heads up like this, but I need more info to decide if I want to spend my very limited time to try it.

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Nathan Tarbert

Excellent!

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Meir Meir

Nevo, I think your article is awesome. Thanks for sharing your research results with us. Saving us a lot of time. Please continue with posting your thoughts about tools you find

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Prince Markie D

These comments restore some of my confidence in humanity.

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Abdulrahim

Which ones?

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Ayush Thakur

Super informative article

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Gabriel Wainmann

What about Pythagora?

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ijindal1

Composio team is doing great work.