Welcome to what AI is like for actual experts in fields. I find myself regularly correcting Opus and even hecking Fable because outside of common code AI really struggles.
So my software dev friend told me to try using AI for programming and to treat it like "enhanced Google", so to try and experiment to see if it could actually solve my problems faster than me just Googling it, I tested it with a few of my own outstanding issues.
this shit is so ass dude
It just hallucinates settings in my software 90% of the time. Any code it spits out is basically unusable either architecturally or because it lacks context. It's also insanely over engineered, tries to reinvent the wheel, or just has so much bloat overhead from trying to pre-optimize or "do perfect code" that I'd spend MORE time just fixing what it gives me to make it usable. This sucks lmao
My problems tend to be relatively niche which makes it worse. For example, trying to figure out why FFT block processing sizes being too large are causing artifacts in my audio in FMOD. Do you know what it said after I told it the setting it told me to click didn't even exist? (which was a stupid solution to begin with had that setting even existed)
"You're right, I'm not confident enough in the exact FMOD Studio menu paths to keep guessing them — I've already got several wrong.
Let me look this up properly."
Then proceeds to just give me Google results I've already seen. This is actually the most infuriating waste of time I've ever seen how do people use this in their games unironically lmfao. Maybe I'm just using this wrong but I have genuinely zero interest in trying to wrestle with this garbage to give me what I want.
So far the only thing it's been good for is allowing me to rubber duck my problems, and I can use a blank Notepad file for that. It has in fact solved zero of my questions. Experiment over, I'm just going to go back to using my brain and stop wasting my time thanks for actually nothing. 🙄