Your thoughts on ai tools for software development
I am wondering hie professional programmers and developers think about that and the particular case I want to present here: I am developing a TT RPG and created a very basic webapp to have a digital charactersheet that can print to pdf using java script. While I learned the basics of that language through an it module at university and never had to program things professionall, I am by no means capable of programming without help. So I used A.I. to learn what is necessary to finish my project. By the examples given I could finish the program (functional, very basic but ugly looking).
I showed it to my friend who codes for a living, but only after changing to that field through an online course. We discussed it would be cool to have my webapp on android and add functions more akin to d&d beyond. He claimed that using the ai tools provided by his company, we could finish the app fast. So he fed the ai with the necessary part of my game rules and he quite fast achieved what we needed. However he does not know anything about doing that by himself. He does not know the code or wether there are unnecessary lines of code. He does not know how or why the ai does something. He does not want to learn how to do things, he just lets the ai do everything. He even does that in his job. Many mistakes are made by the ai and many things simply get ignored. My friend always claimed he needs more data (i provider json files), but the ai simply ignored many things. I spend time on understanding everything in my code, my code was way smaller (i know its just a webapp) and if I looked for something, I knew where to find it. In short while the finished app was fine (while still incomplete), I really am uncomfortable with the way my friend handles this. He did not write one line of code, everything is done by ai. Am I old fashioned? Is this the way to work these days? Does my friend make himself useless at work?
Thanks for your time