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MixedGPT · 27 Jul 2024

150 line scripts that are 95% right in a language that isn't my day job, that kind of thing

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150 line scripts that are 95% right

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Helped: Generating 150-line scripts in non-primary languages.

Got in the way: Fitting code into large existing codebases and UI design docs.

I get generally useful stuff, but 150 line scripts that are 95% right in a language that isn't my day job, that kind of thing. Useful, but not useful enough to do my job for me, as most of the hard work is fitting into an existing large codebase with its own style, architecture, private libraries etc., or where I'm making a UI fit a design doc that the AI can't really see despite having some textual representation of the design as well as the UI code. …