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Tradeoffs (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

I don't mess with any of those in-IDE assistants. I find them very intrusive and they make me less efficient. So many suggestions pop up and I don't like that, and like you said, I get confused. The only time I thought one of them (codium) was somewhat useful is when I asked it to make tests for the file I was on. It did get all the positive tests correct, but all the negative ones wrong. Lol. So, I naturally default to the AI in the browser.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thanks, it makes me feel relieved to hear I'm not the only one finding it a little overwhelming! Previously, I had been using chatgpt and the like where I would be hunting for the answer to a particularly esoteric programming question. I've had a fair amount of success with that, though occasionally I would catch it in the act of contradicting itself, so I've learned you have to follow up on it a bit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Oh yeah, of course. You can't just trust it 100%. One time Claude gave me a piece of code that was a nasty bug that could have caused some serious issues. It was a one liner that deleted an employee from database by mere searching said employee with their name. Thankfully I caught it in the dev environment before it got into prod (assuming AQ missed it, too) and started deleting people. lol.

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