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> AI is excellent at tasks which involve writing quasi-custom boilerplate (eg. tests which require a lot of mocking) I wonder if anyone has compared how well t
by jimbokun 2y ago
> AI is excellent at tasks which involve writing quasi-custom boilerplate (eg. tests which require a lot of mocking)
I wonder if anyone has compared how well the AI auto-generating approach works compared to meta programming approaches (like Lisp macros) meant to address the same kind of issues with repetitive code.
- kazinator 2y agoThe generation of volumes of boiler plate takes effort; nobody likes to do it. The problem is, that phase is not the full life cycle of the boiler plate. You have to live with it afterward.