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> Where I find coding assistants the most useful _is_ in writing code that I already want to write. ... for a very specific definition of "code that I already
by aleph_minus_one 2y ago
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Where I find coding assistants the most useful _is_ in writing code that I already want to write.
... for a very specific definition of "code that I already want to write". :-)
The code that I want to write often involves very novel (and sometimes quite mathematical) concepts. Or code that is "low-level wizardry". Thus the AI nearly by definition will commonly fail with the tasks.
Also, this kind of code often (though not always) has the property that "if you do something wrong, everything falls apart", i.e. it is the kind of problem that has a low tolerance concerning any "AI hallucinations", meaning the code is either (nearly) perfectly right, or not helpful. Debugging any wrong code (even if you have testcases available) will commonly take a very long time.