In a tragic transporter accident, the bodies of an entire away team were contaminated by one of Worf's farts after a double helping of Romulan ale and gagh. Now they can only hang out with each other.
The episodes were cool, and this one in particular, but I've always wished Star Trek had stayed away from time travel. It's just too much of a paradoxical hairball.
I read that Europeans here for the World Cup are crazy for ranch dressing. Seems odd that they don't already have it, given all the American junk food franchises over there.
The last thing I had it do was create a filesystem using Discord as the storage medium. Don't ask me to justify the approach or tell me it breaks Discord's rules - that's irrelevant to my point. It was a fun idea to explore a way to host a bot for public use without also hosting other people's data. The data is pretty minimal but does involve several small tables with relational links. I thought it would be interesting to store it as a few Discord messages in a private channel.
As sample data I gave the AI the JSON file I had been using locally, and discussed various aspects of the design with it. It came up with the scheme of splitting up the data using a channel for each table and a message for each row. I don't remember the interaction in detail but it asked me a bunch of questions - for example, it commented that Discord's limit of 2000 characters per message didn't seem to be a problem given the sample data, but wanting me to confirm. I had it generate the code as a node module with complete CRUD functionality, and refactor my existing code to use the module instead of the JSON file. What it gave me worked perfectly right away.
Now of course this isn't "Write me an accounting system," but it's far more complex than Hello World or Fibonnacci. Whether or not you code with AI is your choice, but deciding my notion of quality isn't up to someone else's because my results aren't "AI sucks" is just pure denialism.
When I first tried it I felt lost, but after watching a couple videos about writing good prompts I had no trouble getting it to produce perfectly good code that did what I wanted. Your mileage may vary.
he’s still writing code that can be written by basically an intern
He usually does full-stack projects by himself, so he has to do everything. And he's using AI to do what interns could do. I've dabbled a little using VSCode AI myself to refactor and upgrade a couple hobby projects, and it didn't "stumble all over itself" at all. In fact it conversed with me like an intern or colleague would, and made many proposals I agreed with. There are ways to craft your prompts that make AI work better. Maybe that's your problem I dunno.
Or that pigeons are utterly stupid.