alt Hacker News> "by the way if you have friends who are expert programmers, I don't recommend asking them for help."
AI is not an expert programmer [today]. and it doesnt take an expert programmer to arrive at that conclusion.
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Call it whatever you want, it helps me get unstuck when my dependencies aren't getting along, or when I need to figure out what's wrong with my usage of an API I'm not familiar with, or why my build won't startup based on the code and the vague error message, etc.
I don't care if it's a human or a robot telling me, I just want to get unstuck and I've been getting unstuck more since the advent of LLMs than in the rest of my programming career. Digging through bad documentation and Googling for old form posts of similar-but-not-quite-the-same-issues was always the worst part of programming to me, and I'm glad there's a tool that finally solved that problem.
I also bet your expert programmer friend is give you pointers and not writing the whole thing for you