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by diggan 370 days ago
I don't think I would place myself on either sides, I guess I'm in the "AI is OK at some stuff" camp.

But if you're getting a lot of noise, I'd immediately try to adjust my system/user prompt to never get that noise in the first place. I'm currently using a variation of https://gist.github.com/victorb/1fe62fe7b80a64fc5b446f82d313... which is basically my personal coding guidelines but "codified" as simple rules for LLMs to understand.

For anything besides the dumb models, I get code that more or less looks exactly like how I would have written it myself. When I find I get code back that I'm not happy with, I adjust the system/user prompt further so this time and the next it returns code like how I would have done it.

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I feel I should clarify

When it comes to judging the quality of AI output, I do agree with "AI is ok at some stuff"

When I say I tend to fall on the Anti AI side, I am saying "But I still don't think it's worth using much"

I don't really want to lean on tools that are just ok at some stuff.