Fuck AI

This is the only way I use it, and I do it grudgingly only because AI has ironically also ruined the web and web search. It’s also a last resort for when Kagi isn’t helping.

Unfortunately for me it’s a kpi so I need to figure out how to do something useful with it.

LLM is good for

• temporary scripts like to export data
• boilerplate for new code
• simple or repetitious code like unit tests

But just in time for my performance review, I spent a week ignoring my work to set and tweak rule sets. Now it can be noticeably more useful

• set context so it understands your code better. No more stupid results like switching languages, making up a new test framework, or randomly use a different mocking tool
• create actions. I’m very happy with a code refactoring ruleset I created. It successfully finds refactoring opportunities (matches cyclonatic complexity hotspots) and recommends approaches and is really good at presenting recommendations so I can understand and accept or reject. I tweaked it until it no longer suggests stupid crap, although I really haven’t been able to use much of the code it tries.
• establish workflow. Still in progress but a ruleset to understand how we use our ticketing system, conventions for commit messages , etc. if I can get it to the point of trusting it, it should automate some of the source control actions and work tracking actions