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NoChatGPT · 29 Sep 2024

There's too much confabulation to be useful as code completion, and any task more complicated than that results in logic errors most of the time

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In the thread “Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?”

Helped: Automating grunt work like creating enums and switch statements.

Got in the way: Code completion and solving complex problems due to confabulation.

I've tried it, and I don't like it. There's too much confabulation to be useful as code completion, and any task more complicated than that results in logic errors most of the time. Code completion was fine without LLMs, and solving problems myself usually ends up being quicker than trying to coerce an LLM into doing it correctly and then verifying that the output is actually correct. …