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by dagw 1465 days ago
I don’t get any useful “give me code that does X” as advertised.

I found it actually worse than useless in those cases. Often I will type a function name it will populate my function body with code that at a quick glance looks like exactly what I want, but at closer inspection is actually complete nonsense. Trying understand if the code it suggests actually does what I want or not is often slower than just writing the code.

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Exactly how I feel, the code it produces like that (unless it’s regurgitating a pattern I am already writing which is useful) is usually wrong in some subtle way I have to figure out.