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NoGPT, Copilot · 18 Dec 2024

The biggest problem with these tools is that they turn a fun problem solving exercise into an incredibly tedious reviewing exercise

leoedin on Hacker News

95% right

In the thread “Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far”, replying to this comment

Helped: Boilerplate generation for development work.

Got in the way: Handling edge cases and introducing subtle bugs.

… But then it introduces subtle bugs which are really hard to catch in review, or suggests completely incorrect function signatures and I wonder if it's adding very much at all. The biggest problem with these tools is that they turn a fun problem solving exercise into an incredibly tedious reviewing exercise. I'd much rather do it myself and understand it fully than have to review the unreliable output of an LLM. …