It’s not really ironic. You could spend a couple hours making yourself twice as good as using AI tools, or a couple hours making yourself like .1% of a better programmer, assuming you’re not banging your head against the wall anyways.
It’s one of those things where a little upskilling can make a big impact. So many things in life need a bit of practice before they’re useful to you.
For starters, you need to change the default prompt in your editor to make it do what you want. If it does something annoying or weird, put it in the prompt to not take that approach. For me, that was absurdly long, useless explanations. And now it’s short and sweet.
It’s one of those things where a little upskilling can make a big impact. So many things in life need a bit of practice before they’re useful to you.
For starters, you need to change the default prompt in your editor to make it do what you want. If it does something annoying or weird, put it in the prompt to not take that approach. For me, that was absurdly long, useless explanations. And now it’s short and sweet.