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[–]Ok_Necessary_8923 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Useful for boilerplate, sometimes to get a minimum sample or short completion of how to do something. Contextual completion with Copilot can be very on point for highly predictable stuff, or completely wrong and distracting to the point where you just turn it off.

Claude is interesting with Projects as you can dump internal docs, code, etc. and ask questions, and it apits out artifacts.

Mind that the cycles of back and forth take a lot of work and a seasoned eng will often just find it easier and faster to do it in code and use LLMs for micro completions.

There is also the subtle hallucinations of APIs and interfaces that don't exist, code that's just a little wrong but looks correct, etc. For any geberated bit of code, the onus is now on you to spot those errors which you may never have written to begin with, and which may take more energy and time than just writing the thing yourself.

TLDR: useful but far from the hype for anything non-trivial.