[qup]

> still hallucinates standard-library types and methods more-often-than-not whenever I ask it to generate code for me

Not an argument, unsolicited advice: my guess is you are asking it to do too much work at once. Make much smaller changes. Try to ask for as roughly much as you would put into one git commit (per best practices)-- for me that's usually editing a dozen or less lines of code.

> Once a project grows past hundreds of KB of significant source I honestly don’t know how us humans are meant to get LLMs to work on them. Please educate me.

https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider

Edit: The author of aider puts the percentage of the code written by LLMs for each release. It's been 70%+. But some problems are still easier to handle yourself. https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/releases

[DaiPlusPlus]

Thank you for your response - I've aksed these questions before in other contexts but never had a reply, so pretty-much any online discussion about LLMs feels like I'm surrounded by people role-playing being on LinkedIn.