{"id":3081,"date":"2025-08-05T20:16:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T20:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:37:10","slug":"ai-as-coding-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/05\/ai-as-coding-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"AI as coding partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/martinfowler.com\/articles\/exploring-gen-ai\/partner-with-ai-and-throw-away-the-code.html\">https:\/\/martinfowler.com\/articles\/exploring-gen-ai\/partner-with-ai-and-throw-away-the-code.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Takeaway: ask the AI to explain the code.<\/p>\n<p>Takeaway: use AI to generate unfamiliar (to me) utilities<\/p>\n<p>Takeaway: use AI help to make test data more readable<\/p>\n<p>Takeaway: refactor a function by providing an improvement idea to the AI<\/p>\n<p>Takeaway: build understanding gradually, using AI to drive experiments and prototypes.<\/p>\n<p>Takeaway: when in doubt, restart from scratch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/martinfowler.com\/articles\/exploring-gen-ai\/partner-with-ai-and-throw-away-the-code.html Takeaway: ask the AI to explain the code. Takeaway: use AI to generate unfamiliar (to me) utilities Takeaway: use AI help to make test data more readable Takeaway: refactor a function by providing an improvement idea to the AI Takeaway: build understanding gradually, using AI to drive experiments and prototypes. Takeaway: when in doubt, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3628,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions\/3628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}