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by jamil7 587 days ago
> This mirrors my experience using LLMs on personal projects. They can provide good advice only to the extent that your project stays within the bounds of well-known patterns.

I agree but I find its still a great productivity boost for certain tasks, cutting through the hype and figuring out tasks that are well suited to these tools and prompting optimially has taken me a long time.

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I hear people say this a lot but invariably the tasks end up being "things you shouldnt be doing".

E.g. pointing the AI at your code and getting it to write unit tests or writing more boilerplate, faster.