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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Unfortunately, the article does not write about how people use it.

I use it to skip reading docs. Either it works, or I read the docs, sometimes in parallel, whatever is faster.

Oftentimes I just forgot how some function is called.

I'm still in the testing phase and in more than 50% of the cases its crap. Halizination is a real problem with those models that I've used.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I use it mainly for code completion, and it's great until I hit <tab> to indent and accidentally accept a 50 line suggestion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I limit suggestions to one line, that's the sweet spot for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Same, but it's also useful to write READMEs (most of the times).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You tell me the article "How software engineers actually use AI" is not about how software engineers use AI?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

At least an ai would've adressed the topic but the post didnt