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by everyone 23 days ago
Is anyone doing this who is not making CRUD web-apps or other very common types of programs for which there is masses of training data to copy from the net?

I tend to do oddball stuff (eg. software for custom arcade machines, AR games) and any forays I've made into AI code have made it seem like a total waste of time for me. (ie. I will spend much longer trying to get AI do to a shitty job, compared to just doing it myself)

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I write low level highly performance sensitive code and I get excellent results using LLMs. It isn't a narrow area of applicability.
"low level highly performance sensitive" doesnt mean uncommon. What you're doing may be common with loads of examples to copy. (I dont know cus u didnt say what you're actually doing)
It is a minefield for structural bio/chem.