Useful but not majorly changing my work at the moment (pretty good at comments, test cases, or as google replacement)
aDyslecticCrow on Hacker News
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Helped: Writing comments, test cases, and acting as a search replacement.
Got in the way: Hallucinating library functions, writing uncompilable C, and parsing complex ISO standards.
… My personal AI experience has been very mixed in comparison, regularly making up functions of common libraries, hallucinate the description of technical terms, straight up writing un-compilable c-code, or get confused by relatively small code-bases. Useful but not majorly changing my work at the moment (pretty good at comments, test cases, or as google replacement). Granted, I've only tried models up to Opus 4.8, and not had experience with the newest "tier" of models with Fable, Kimi K3 or GPT 5.6; but the prices on those are also starting to compete badly with my salary at the moment.