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Are you still using AI tools to help with development? (self.experienced_devs)

submitted 1 year ago by jeff to c/experienced_devs

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I trialed GitHub Copilot and used ChatGPT for a bit, but recently I found myself using them less and less.

I've found them valuable when doing something new(at least to me), but for most of my day-to-day it seems to have lost it's luster.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a FSE and I use GitHub copilot and Perplexity. I wouldn't want to code without them anymore.

I want to get things done (especially when I'm at work) and not spent time reading docs or having 20 tabs of stackflow open. I've had enough of that lol.

I think everyone here knows copilot but perplexity is a lot smaller and newer. It's basically like chatgpt but faster and it googles stuff, giving sources for each claim that I can read for myself.

For example, for my latest project I decided to give tailwind a try and instead of having to look through the docs for every little thing I just ask perplexity and it sums it up for me, even giving examples.

And I use copilot a lot for mundane tasks, for example when I write an API that takes an object of type Foo, Copilot auto Fills making variables and checking each for nulls and then I use that API in the frontend copilot already knows what I'm about to do and auto-fills the fetch.