Yes
If you do that in a targeted way, where it doesn’t have to build a "world model" of your codebase then it writes much better code than an average human being would
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220k lines of Python, Rust, C++ and some Bash
In the thread “AI usage generates a fragile codebase”
Helped: Targeted usage where the AI does not need to build a world model of the codebase.
Got in the way: C++ code generation was horrible and produced bloated code.
… I love coding, I love typing my solutions by hand, but I also switched couple of months ago to AI generated code. If you do that in a targeted way, where it doesn’t have to build a "world model" of your codebase then it writes much better code than an average human being would. My codebase at work is about 220k lines of Python, Rust, C++ and some Bash. …