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by spacemadness 359 days ago
When it works for unit tests I love it. Every once in a while it’d just work and save me time. Unfortunately a vast majority of the time I could never let it just write them and not rework them because I’ve never seen an LLM know how to write code review ready code. It takes weird short cuts and sidesteps more efficient and readable ways of doing things. And a lot of the time it was just simply wrong in its approach and I’d find myself arguing with it so much that it made more sense to write the test myself. This was on iOS and using Swift which I think most LLMs generally suck at for whatever reason, probably due to all the bad and old advice on the internet as Swift continues to change.