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> It writes blocks of 50 - 100 lines fairly fast in one go, and I work in such block chunks one at a time. How many lines of natural language do you have to wr
by bluefirebrand 2y ago
> It writes blocks of 50 - 100 lines fairly fast in one go, and I work in such block chunks one at a time.
How many lines of natural language do you have to write in order to get it to generate these 50-100 lines correctly?
I find that by the time I have written the right prompt to get a decently accurate 100 lines of code from these tools, which I then hage to carefully review, I could have easily written the 100 lines of code myself
That doesn't make the tool very useful, especially because reviewing the code it generates is much slower than writing it myself
Not to mention the fact that even if it generates perfect bug free code (which I want to emphasize: it never ever seems to do) if I want to extend it I still have to read it thoroughly, understand it, and build my own mental model of the code structure
- skydhash 2y agoAnd there’s the value of snippets and old code. Especially for automation and infrastructure tasks. If your old project is modular enough, you can copy paste a lot of the boilerplate.