Quote Originally Posted by fafalone View Post
eventually you get a feel for what you will or will not save time for vs just writing it yourself.
Yes, more or less. I think they still speed up a bit.
For example, if this particular case that I'm working now, I would have to study the OpenXML specification, that would had been a lot of work.
I have the exporter working already.
But, it wasn't as easy as one would like it to be. We are far from being replaced by these AIs.

Quote Originally Posted by Thierry69 View Post
If I had a key for Claude, I could test it.
If you want to test the chat, you can do it for free. You can even upload project files, and it writes them back (unfortunately with LF instead of CR_LF, so you need to correct that).

Just go to claude.ai and register with en email.

Quote Originally Posted by GustavBrock View Post
and today you should not code without the assistance of AI as it saves you hours and hours of time. Of course, it is perfect for "bread-and-butter" tasks like renaming a variable, but now and then it suggest methods you would never have thought about.
Yes, programming have changed, like it or not.

BTW, today I tried Deepseek, it seems to be quite good. It made some mistakes, but all them do. I have to test it more.