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  • From my experience it’s really great at bootstrapping new projects for you. It’s good at getting you sample files and if you’re using cursor just building out a sample project.

    It’s decent at being an alternative to google/SO for syntax or previously encountered errors. There’s a few things it hallucinates but generally it can save time as long as you don’t trust it blindly.

    It struggles when you give it complex tasks or not-straightforward items. Or things that require a lot of domain knowledge. I once wanted to see what css classes were still in use across a handful of react components and it just shat the bed.

    The people who champion AI as a human replacement will build a quick proof of concept with it and proclaim “oh shit this is awesome!” And not realize that that’s the easy part of software engineering.


  • My company is experimenting with using LLMs for yearly reviews and it works just like this. We feed in some bullet points of accomplishments and hope the LLM doesn’t fuck it up. Then the manager gets a condensed version down from the summaries.

    Like why bother have the llm in the middle? Can’t I just send data?