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Copilot and ChatGPT help me with my actual job on my real life codebase, warts and all, every day
electroly on Hacker News
In the thread “LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024”, replying to this comment
Helped: Copilot and ChatGPT assist with actual job on real codebase daily.
Got in the way: Aider blew up on large files due to token limits.
… I hope to try aider again but it's in the unfortunate category of "I have to find a problem and a codebase simple enough that aider can handle it" whereas Copilot and ChatGPT come to me where I am. Copilot and ChatGPT help me with my actual job on my real life codebase, warts and all, every day.