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I’m skeptical about a lot of things about it in general, but I found it really helpful in one particular scenario: I’m learning a new framework and I type out something I think is right, but is not, I ask it why it’s not working and how to fix it. It pulls all the relevant files and errors from the IDE and tells me something. Sometimes I have to remind it to use a different version of the framework as it has a different approach slightly, but overall it helped me find and figure out quite a lot of issues. But my codebase is pretty small still, I don’t use it to engineer big changes.
I mean, has it's uses for sure, but the scope in which people are deploying these cookiecutter generalist LLMs and expecting bloody miracles is unrealistic. Plus, I like my privacy, AI's are kind of an antithesis of that. Environmental cost is way too high as well.
It's a tool, and it can be used successfully, but it's so inefficient that I can't justify it personally.
i kinda feel like you could do better with the basics of good documentation, good tutorials, and good training. is AI really helping in the long run?