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by giancarlostoro 271 days ago
> but not explicitly in discrete steps and that was where i got into messes.

I've said this repeatedly, I mostly use it for boilerplate code, or when I'm having a brain fart of sorts, I still love to solve things for myself, but AI can take me from "I know I want x, y, z" to "oh look I got to x, y, z in under 30 minutes, which could have taken hours. For side projects this is fine.

I think if you do it piecemeal it should almost always be fine. When you try to tell it to do two much, you and the model both don't consider edge cases (Ask it for those too!) and are more prone for a rude awakening eventually.