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prhn ◴[] No.44006680[source]
Is anyone using any of these tools to write non boilerplate code?

I'm very interested.

In my experience ChatGPT and Gemini are absolutely terrible at these types of things. They are constantly wrong. I know I'm not saying anything new, but I'm waiting to personally experience an LLM that does something useful with any of the code I give it.

These tools aren't useless. They're great as search engines and pointing me in the right direction. They write dumb bash scripts that save me time here and there. That's it.

And it's hilarious to me how these people present these tools. It generates a bunch of code, and then you spend all your time auditing and fixing what is expected to be wrong.

That's not the type of code I'm putting in my company's code base, and I could probably write the damn code more correctly in less time than it takes to review for expected errors.

What am I missing?

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1. spariev ◴[] No.44006751[source]
I think it all depends on your platform and use cases. In my experience AI tools work best with Python and JS/Typescript and some simple use cases (web apps, basic data science etc). Also, I've found they can be of great help with refactorings and cases when you need to do something similar to already existing code, but with a twist or change.