it spewed such a garbage that I would have written everything faster by myself
Moldoteck on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: Do you already see the impact of LLMs on the job prospects for dev's?”
Helped: Autocompletion for simple use-cases.
Got in the way: Generating unit tests and fixing threading bugs.
… Beyond unit tests and trivial code writing it's almost useless. Even for unit tests I tried using the chat feature to ask it to generate ut for a specific function - at first I needed to convince it to generate them since it didn't 'want' to, finally, when convinced - it spewed such a garbage that I would have written everything faster by myself. In other words, there's some value in autocompletion for simple use-cases, but the moment situation gets complicated involving adding a feature that impacts more files and that needs to do some data processing or something related to either writing threading related code or fix threading bugs - it just takes more time (at least for us, the xp is similar …