in an honest retrospective I would have to admit that the overall process actually didn't save me any time at all
kibwen on Hacker News
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Helped: Identified code structure and codec details accurately.
Got in the way: Ignored C constraints, used C++ features, generated buggy code.
… This was a fresh session (no prior context to confuse it) using a tightly crafted prompt (a small, self-contained C program doing one thing) with a clear goal, and it still required constant handholding. At the end of the day, I got the code working by editing it manually, but in an honest retrospective I would have to admit that the overall process actually didn't save me any time at all. Ironically, despite how they're sold, these tools are infinitely better at going from code to English than going the other way around.