[darkwater]

> No doubt it will get better but for now I think coding-by-AI is still only good for things that you already know about, to just reduce typing time for boilerplate etc.; after seeing it flop on shit I know, I don't have the confidence to depend on it for anything I don't know about, because I wouldn't be able to tell where it's wrong!

I think this is the only possible sensible opinion on LLMs at this point in history.

[simonw]

I use it for things I don't know how to do all the time... but I do that as a learning exercise for myself.

Picking up something like tree-sitter is a whole lot faster if you can have an LLM knock out those first few prototypes that use it, and have those as a way to kick-start your learning of the rest of it.

[UltraSane]

I have it do hard Leetcode problems and then read the code and have it explain parts I don't understand.

[darkwater]

And how do you know if the explanation is correct? I mean, explaining something like leet code that has a lot of background available in CS books and courses is probably going to be correct, but yet, you cannot be sure.

[UltraSane]

I know enough about algorithms and computer science to tell most of the time.