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[-] 30p87@feddit.org 21 points 1 month ago

In which case would a competent dev use an LLM?

[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 month ago

Looking up how to do something, as an improved stackoverflow. Especially if it provides sources in the answer.

Boilerplate unit tests. Yes, yes, I know - use parametrized test, but it's often not practical.

Mass refactoring. This is tricky because you need to thoroughly review it, but it saves you annoying typing.

I'm sure there's more, it's far from useless. But you need to know what you want it to do and how to check if done correctly.

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 13 points 1 month ago

I very rarely find result summarizers useful. If I didn't find something normally, there won't be anything in there.

I sure love tests and huge codebases with errors in them. In the time I read and understood an LLM's output, I could write it myself. And save on time later when expanding/debugging.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

When yarn/react/next.js/amplify breaks in some new and idiotic way, Claude is helpful more often than not. Why spend hours googling and sifting through github/stack overflow/etc when Claude can tell me what option to tweak to fix it in a fraction of the time?

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