Lately I have been asking Copilot for help with maintenance work, it does amazingly well at explaining strange but highly repetitive code
PaulHoule on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: Fellow neurodivergents, do you pair better with LLMs than neurotypicals?”
Helped: Explaining strange, highly repetitive code like Babel transpiler output.
… I've only met two people in my life who are better at sci-fi chat than a good chatbot. Lately I have been asking Copilot for help with maintenance work, it does amazingly well at explaining strange but highly repetitive code such as the stuff the Babel transpiler inserts into code (stuff that is probably all over the training set.) Sometimes it beats searching Google and Stack Overflow. I am working on several "second brain" programs that use LLMs for classification, clustering and other analysis but not doing any generative stuff right now. …