Yes
It actually has prevented me once or twice from refactoring something in a way that would have caught me headaches down the line
creesch on Hacker News
In the thread “OpenAI is good at unminifying code”
Helped: Asking LLMs to explain code logic and detangle spaghetti code for readability.
Got in the way: LLMs sometimes miss details, requiring manual verification.
… Again, it isn't always perfect, but more often than not it comes with explanations that actually make sense, hold up under scrutiny and give me new insights. It actually has prevented me once or twice from refactoring something in a way that would have caught me headaches down the line. [0] chatGPT and more recently openwebUI as a front end to various other models (Claude variants mostly) to see the differences. …