I am on you with this one. It is also very helpful in argument heavy libraries like plotly. If I ask a simple question like "in plotly how do I do this and that to the xaxis" etc it generally gives correct answers, saving me having to do internet research for 5-10 minutes or read documentations for functions with 1000 inputs. I even managed to get it to render a simple scene of cloud of points with some interactivity in 3js after about 30 minutes of back and forth. Not knowing much javascript, that would take me at least a couple hours. So yeah it can be useful as an assistant to someone who already knows coding (so the person can vet and debug the code).

Though if you weigh pros and cons of how LLMs are used (tons of fake internet garbage, tons of energy used, very convincing disinformation bots), I am not convinced benefits are worth the damages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why do you want AI to save you for learning and understanding the tools you use?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you do it through AI you can still learn. After all I go through the code to understand what is going on. And for not so complex tasks LLMs are good at commenting the code (though it can bullshit from time to time so you have to approach it critically).

But anyways the stuff I ask LLMs are generally just one off tasks. If I need to use something more frequently, I do prefer reading stuff for more in depth understanding.