Here's a thought: Does it count as AI written code if you're basically just telling it to fill in a template?
My common use case is basically just writing some code in the style I use. Then I'll tell the LLM, "Do X based on Y using the rest of the methods in Z". The code I would write would look exactly the same. I just the LLM as a shortcut to getting the code written.
Like, I'm not depending on any sort of knowledge within the model. I just use its natural ability to be a smart templater.
If using AI this way counts as AI written code. Then sure, I reckon you could easily get to 90% AI written code in loads of applications. But in terms of developing a product or feature from just plain english prompts alone? Definitely lower, and definitely babysat with someone with software development knowledge.
I call that AI-assisted programming and I think it's a very appropriate way to use this tech - it's effectively a typing assistant, saving you on time spent entering code into a computer.
Lately I’ve done a lot of asking Copilot to do things like write a Provider for a ContainerRequestContext in JAX-RS which turned out the same as if I wrote it myself but I would have spent more time looking up things in the documentation.
I had a bunch of accessibility-related tickets that were mostly about adding aria-attributes to React code involving mainly MUI components and got good answers off the bat with the code changes made but going back and forth with it we found other improvements to make to the markup beyond what was originally asked for.
My common use case is basically just writing some code in the style I use. Then I'll tell the LLM, "Do X based on Y using the rest of the methods in Z". The code I would write would look exactly the same. I just the LLM as a shortcut to getting the code written.
Like, I'm not depending on any sort of knowledge within the model. I just use its natural ability to be a smart templater.
If using AI this way counts as AI written code. Then sure, I reckon you could easily get to 90% AI written code in loads of applications. But in terms of developing a product or feature from just plain english prompts alone? Definitely lower, and definitely babysat with someone with software development knowledge.