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Yea the confident nonsense generators take getting used to. They will happily mix old and new api versions and invent whatever fits the wording. So when I know
by lolc 4y ago
Yea the confident nonsense generators take getting used to. They will happily mix old and new api versions and invent whatever fits the wording. So when I know my way around, they are not useful.
However, I've gotten used to being able to ask "how do I X in Y" when I don't know the language or libraries well. The generated answers are often subtly wrong, but they can save me hours of digging. After all, even if I'd come up with an attempt myself, it would also require refinement and tests. So they can often shortcut discovery.
Some things I was able to do only because of the bot. It would have been uneconomical to learn the tech enough to come up with a solution myself.
One of the weirder things is how often an adjacent refinement will be suggested when I'd ask about a specific detail. It would take my example, and not only modify in the direction I want, but also to follow convention more closely. When it modifies an example to follow an old api version, that is sad, but overall I find it useful.