[torginus]

An alterinative to this workflow that I find myself returning to is the good ol' nicking code from stackoverflow or Github.

ChatGPT works really well because the stuff you are looking for is already written somewhere and it solves the needle-in-the-haystack problem of finding it, very well.

But I often find it tends to output code that doesn't work but eerily looks like it should, whereas Github stuff tends to need a bit more wrangling but tends to work.

[briHass]

The big benefit to me with SO is that with a question with multiple answers, the top up voted question likely works, since those votes are probably people that tried it. I also like the 'well, actually' responses and follow up, because people point out performance issues or edge cases I may or may not care about.

I only find current LLMs to be useful for code that I could easily write, but I am too lazy to do so. The kind of boilerplate that can be verified quickly by eye.