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by zxexz 503 days ago
Only for memoized boilerplate, and that’s the way I’ve used them since I realized I could do it. “AI” hasn’t supplanted the practice for me at all for me, and I’m still surprised that apparently it had for most people. I can insert a template faster than a round-trip to an LLM.

That’s not to say that “AI” assisted coding isn’t useful -in fact it can be indispensable. For me, the value is mostly it being a seemingly perpetually slightly drunk, yet prescriptive, pair coding partner.