[chromadon]

This is the thing. I do use LLMs (mostly Anthropic).

It just does not generate good useable code. I have to review every single change to a higher degree than I would my own code because it likes to slip in hidden nasties. I have to rewrite at least 50% of what it generates.

That being said, I know devs who swear that they don’t even write code anymore. Like this rust port. I can’t even fathom blindly merging something his massive.

[nipah]

"rewrite 50% of what it generates" See, I'll not claim they write good code. But have you considered maybe your standards are a little bit too high for the tool? I made like 15 tools already using AI for my use, most of them I barely needed to touch in the code. The code is not great, no, but it's not useless and that's what matter for me. You try and iteratively ask for the AI to do things. If you want to ensure a higher degree of quality you can ask for tests and use techniques such as mutation testing to increase coverage, etc.

If you expect the same level of quality as you would write by hand, then you probably is better off... not using those tools. I mean if I was rewriting 50% of the generations I get I would not be using them at all.