Mixed
Sometimes it will get me 80% of the way there, and I have to manually tweak it
sk0g on Hacker News
maybe ~15% of my time working on something new
In the thread “An example of LLM prompting for programming”, replying to this comment
Helped: Generating simple test cases with GIVEN/WHEN/THEN comments and saving boilerplate code.
Got in the way: Producing complete garbage that is ignored and failing on complex maintenance tasks.
… In small, self-contained bits of code -- much more common in new projects or microservices for example -- it can save a lot of cookie cutter work. Sometimes it will get me 80% of the way there, and I have to manually tweak it. Quite often it produces complete garbage that I ignore. …