[atoav]

A good usecase for LLMs seems to me to be the quick exploration of unknown codebases.

My issue with the code they generate is mostly that the style of abstractions chosen is inconsistent and seems to replicate whatever was the source at any given point. Programming is still about understanding what is going on, not about just writing code, so either way you need to put in the brainwork to understand it.

But as a "just show me an example"-helper it can save you a lot of time, especially if you load highly undocumented and convoluted codebases into it.

In some cases I had the LLM hallucinate functions that would have been wonderful if they existed, but hey.