i want ai (just not death by it)

[Raoul Duke]

almost all code is inscrutable, at least at first. the more complicated, the worse off my experience is trying to do anything with it. i'm very burned out on it all. 

i day dream of an ai tool that understood the code and so could answer natural language questions about it. "how do i get this charting code to make the lhs of the xaxis always be the current time in the data set?" for example. 

these are all things, a conga line of things, i have to go through ad infinitum in order to get to a point where i can actually do any surgery on the code in question. very annoying. 

(let alone also take instructions from me and then go edit the code in an interactive loop with me, to change what i want to.)

[Mike Austin]

Yeah if it makes my life easier and helps me write code / create apps easier. But if it’s for people that don’t know how to code and then am asked to “fix it”, then no. AI answers are often flat out wrong that I’ve seen.