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prompting is more often than not a total waste of time
CopyOnWrite on Hacker News
In the thread “The hidden cost of AI coding”
Helped: Small or trivial examples where generated code is mostly okay.
Got in the way: Prompting for non-trivial problems in a basic CRUD service.
Most comments here surprise me: I am using Githubs Copilot / ChatGPT 4.0 at work with a code base which is mostly implements a basic CRUD service... and outside of small/trivial example (where the generated code is mostly okay), prompting is more often than not a total waste of time. Now, I wonder if I am just totally unable to write/refine good prompts for the LLM (as it works for smaller samples, I hope I am not too far off) or what could explain the huge discrepancy of experience. …