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I haven't really found a major productivity boost using LLMs for _production_ software. Writing up the prompt and iterating can take as much time as just doing it. The auto-complete is better _IF_ it gets the syntax correct (depends a lot on how well it knows or can infer the framework).

Where I have found them very useful are for one-off scripts and stuff I need done quick and dirty, that isn't too complex and easily verifiable (so I can catch the mistakes it makes, and it does make them!), and especially in languages I don't know that well or don't like (i.e., bash, powershell, javascript)



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