It ends up saving nothing more than a few keystrokes, if that, yet people say all the time that they're generating entire pieces of software by gluing together code it spits out, which I find absolutely insane given my anecdotal attempts at it
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Helped: Reformatting or generating boilerplate code in popular languages.
Got in the way: Complex integrated code; boilerplate contains non-obvious gotchas.
… But even with the innocent-looking boilerplate there's always a weird gotcha that isn't obvious until you really analyze the code closely. It ends up saving nothing more than a few keystrokes, if that, yet people say all the time that they're generating entire pieces of software by gluing together code it spits out, which I find absolutely insane given my anecdotal attempts at it. This can circumvented by going with more elaborate in-depth prompts, but at that point are you really saving on effort compared to the alternative? …