As a newb to programming I find it helpful for boilerplate and “smart” autocomplete tasks (which makes sense, as a LLM is simply autocomplete on steroids). I ha

As a newb to programming I find it helpful for boilerplate and “smart” autocomplete tasks (which makes sense, as a LLM is simply autocomplete on steroids). I have found it helpful for Regex as well, which is a topic that still catches me. It can also be interesting (albeit typically somewhat useless) to bounce ideas off of it and have it attempt to solve problems. It rarely helps, but in my experience humans haven’t been much better outside of my professor. I’ve found its best at completing repetitive but simple tasks, such as organizing data or making simple scripts. Anything more complex or that cannot be easily explained in a way it “understands” will run into problems. For instance, telling it to program a custom variant of Dijkstra’s Algorithm for my specific input data? No go, it doesn’t work. However, a simple script to replace any text from column 1 in a CSV with its neighbor text in column 2? Works first try.