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[–] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    If so, is it any good?

    I imagine if one writes janky spaghetti then it's easy to think that LLMs will result in redundancy. My experience is that they're like having an over-enthusiastic junior who doesn't learn. Useful when one can't be bothered to write something with very limited scope but is quickly out of their depth on anything involved.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah. AI 100% makes me more productive and by a good bit. I used it to write a section of code today to export all the information my program gathers about a system to a json file. Woulda taken me 20 minutes but chatgpt did it in seconds.

    It also, in the same snippet, introduced a breaking change I didn't ask for in the original code. I only copied the json part; I just happened to notice the change in the code it wrong. It added a fork bomb lol

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That's the thing though - I find that what it saves me in time writing it costs me in reviewing. I hate reviewing.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I've cut down on that by only giving it tasks that are reviewed automatically.

    "Spit this into a json"

    It gives me the code, I continue with my program knowing exactly what is where in the json and if I get a parsing error or something I know exactly where to look. TBH, though, for things like that I must have an error rate lower than 5%

    Ask it to configure a reverse proxy for a cors sensitive application, though, and I think I'd rather die

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