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by tetha
600 days ago
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> Porting a multi-thousand line web SaaS product in Typescript that's just CRUD operations and cranking out web views? Sure why not.
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> Porting a multi-thousand line game codebase that's performance-critical and written in C++? Probably not. From my own experience: I really enjoy CoPilot to support me writing a terraform provider. I think this works well because we have hundreds of existing terraform providers with the same boilerplate and the same REST-handling already. Here, the LLM can crank out oodles and oodles of identical boilerplate that's easy to review and deal with. Huge productivity boost. Maybe we should have better frameworks and languages for this, but alas... I've also tried using CoPilot on a personal Godot project. I turned it off after a day, because it was so distracting with nonsense. Thinking about it along these lines, I would not be surprised if this occurred because the high-level code of games (think what AAA games do in Lua, and well what Godot does in GDScript) tends to be small-volume and rather erratic within there. Here there is no real pattern to follow. This could also be a cause for the huge difference in LLM productivity boosts people report. If you need Spring Boot code to put query params into an ORM and turn that into JSON, it can probably do that. If you need embedded C code for an obscure micro controller.. yeah, good luck. |
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... or even information in the embedded world. LLMs need to generate something, o they'll generate code even when the answer is "no dude, your chip doesn't support that".