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The main thing LLMs have helped me with, and always comes back to, tasks that require bootstrapping / Googling: 1) Starting simple codebases 2) Googling syntax
by some-guy 1y ago
The main thing LLMs have helped me with, and always comes back to, tasks that require bootstrapping / Googling:
1) Starting simple codebases
2) Googling syntax
3) Writing bash scripts that utilize Unix commands whose arguments I have never bothered to learn in the first place.
I definitely find time savings with these, but the esoteric knowledge required to work on a 10+ year old codebase is simply too much for LLMs still, and the code alone doesn't provide enough context to do anything meaningful, or even faster than I would be able to do myself.
- mywittyname 1y agoLLMs are amazing at shell scripting. It's one of those tasks where I always half-ass it because I don't really know how to properly handle errors and never really learned the correct way. But man, perplexity and poop out a basic shell script in a few seconds with pretty much every edge case I can think of covered.
- tcoff91 1y agoIt really is the thing they are best at.