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by philjohn 469 days ago
The biggest boon I've found is writing tests - especially when you've got lots of mocks to setup, takes away that boilerplate overhead and lets you focus on the meat of the test.

And when you name your test cases in a common pattern such as "MethodName_ExpectedBehavior_StateUnderTest" the LLM is able to figure it out about 80% of the time.

Then the other 20% of the time I'll make a couple of corrections, but it's definitely sped me up by a low double digit percentage ... when writing tests.

When writing code, it seems to get in the way more often than not, so I mostly don't use it - but then again, a lot of what I'm doing isn't boilerplate CRUD code.