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by zxspectrum1982 7 hours ago
It only hallucinates if you use it wrong. Give it enough requirements, context, keep an eye on all it does (like it were a junior developer), and you will get awesome results. AI code assistants are a fantastic tool that can make you 10-100x more productive provided that you know how to use them.

Most of the people saying the kind of things you say don't know how to properly use an AI code assistant.
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majorchord 5 hours ago
> It only hallucinates if you use it wrong

Sorry but this is demonstrably false. For starters, see the "R's in strawberry" meme.

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bigstrat2003 6 hours ago
> It only hallucinates if you use it wrong.

That's a very lackluster argument. Even if everything you said was true (and to be clear: it absolutely isn't; LLMs will hallucinate no matter what as it's in their very nature), that's still a flaw in the tool. A good tool must not require convoluted dances to make it work halfway decently.

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zxspectrum1982 5 hours ago
AI code assistants are lazy junior developers (so you need to keep an eye on everything they do, e.g. make sure they don't forget or ignore to do some parts of the work you tell them to do) with the ability to do research as in-depth as a senior developer. Now make your mind about it. When driving an AI code assistant, you must act like you are a softare development manager managing a team of junior developers.
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