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Its useful for writing generic code/template/boilerplate, then customizing it by inserting your own code. For something you already know better, there isn't a m
by countWSS 3y ago
Its useful for writing generic code/template/boilerplate, then customizing it by inserting your own code.
For something you already know better, there isn't a magic prompt to express it, since the code
is not generic enough for LLM to understand as a prompt.
Its best usecase is when you're not a domain expert, need quickly to run some unknown API/library
inside your program inserting code like "write a function for loading X with Y in language Z"
when you barely have an idea what is X,Y,Z.
Its possible in theory to break-down everything to "write me a function for N" but
the quality of such functions is not worth the prompting in most situations and you better ask it
to explain how to write a function X,Y,Z step-by-step.
- jacobr1 3y agoThis is exactly where I get the most value. For example, I know write a bunch of custom chrome plugins. I'm not much of javascript guy, but I can get by and validate the code. Usually what I want to do is simple, but requires making an api call and basic parsing. All stuff I could probably figure out myself in an hour or two. But instead I can get an initial version done in 2 minutes and spend 5-10 debugging. I probably wouldn't even try otherwise.