alt Hacker NewsI can’t find the quote right now; but it’s along the lines. LLM’s can help with the first 80% of coding which is introducing bugs, but terrible at the other 80% of the time which is removing said bugs.
Lean and agile theory says that quality is improved and efficiency gained by going upstream and eliminating the things that are producing poor quality in the first place.
Llm code tools may be useful to give syntax tips, but like a thoughtless dev on a team, likely introduce more work than they get done.
The thing about chatgpt/cursor is that they seem very good at fixing things if they have verbose errors - and nix is very verbose about what it hates in your config. I've given errors to chatgpt and it fixed it for me. With cursor, I had something displaying in a really weird way (plotting a map in js), and I gave it a screenshot and it fixed it immediately.
I would never use llm code in prod without understanding it, but for one-off utilities it has been really great so far.