No
it utterly fails at any actual engineering tasks
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Helped: Explaining new stuff, spitting out configs and command line arguments.
Got in the way: Actual engineering tasks, understanding intent, and architecture.
… I wish I could get so much help from a LLM. I’m a heavy GPT-4 and Copilot user, it explains new stuff to me, spits out configs and command line arguments, sometimes code snippets, but it utterly fails at any actual engineering tasks. Like, I work on document automation, most of my job is about evaluating changes to documents, efficiently resolving the side effects, transforming from the internal format to HTML, stuff like that. …