Until the last few days, I had not intentionally invoked AI (although I’m sure it has been working behind the scenes in many things I’ve done; search engines come to mind). I find myself now asking ChatGPT questions that I would have sought answers for on forums.
I’m curious to know how many here use AI, which ones they use, and how they use it. Are there other uses for AI in web development (CSS/HTML/Javascript/SQLServer, etc.) that I should look into?
I use AI for code snippets. Normally AI complicate things a lot, so I have to simplify the code to be useful. Sometimes I get a complicated code snippet from one AI and ask for simplifying by asking another AI. Questions about HTML, CSS, Javascript, Go, Server stuff, SQL etc…
Copilot is the best for short simple questions. Claude and chatGPT for more complicated questions. Blackbox and Deepseek more seldom. And Gemini is a second opinion. And Phind is almost always looking from another angle.
My questions are very broad, but mainly about code, architecture and similar.
Forum are still valid as AI cannot give a HI opinion. And opinions are subjective and more what you expect from a real customer. Sometimes is HI straight to the point and not that friendly, but that is sometimes better than a friendly AI that almost always agree with me. If I ask on a forum I expect a honest answer (opinion) that is harder to get from AI.
You just have to temper your expectations of AI. They are very good but, especially when you inevitably get to the point of asking it to generate code for you, come up with things that obviously aren’t human thought patterns, and don’t always generate something you want, but has answered the prompt.
More worrying is when AI has been used to substitute for understanding. When something goes wrong, if you dont know what the AI did, you wont be able to fix it.
Thanks for the info.
I will look into the other AIs and see what I think of them.
Thanks, that has been my experience. I do find it useful to introduce new topics.
I have used ChatGPT and Perplexity with some success. Trying to get Perplexity to debug its code was frustrating but an interesting experience…