Yes
It's been excellent at building small tools from scratch, and for essentially brute forcing undocumented code
sgillen on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”
Helped: Building small tools from scratch and brute forcing undocumented code.
Got in the way: Feeling less connected to code and receiving more review requests.
… I do a lot of green field research adjacent work, or work directly with messy code from our researchers. It's been excellent at building small tools from scratch, and for essentially brute forcing undocumented code. I can give it a prompt like "Here is this code we got from research, the docs are 3 months out of date and don't work, keep trying things until you manage to get $THING running". …