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[–] NegativeLookBehind 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

When I used to try and ask AI for help, most of the time it would just give me fake command combinations or reference some made-up documentation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The best one I've used for coding is the InelliJ AI. Idk how they trained that sucker but it's pretty good at ripping through boiler plate code and structuring new files / methods based off how your project is already setup. It still has those little hallucinations especially when you ask it to figure out more niche tasks. But It's really increased my productivity. Especially when getting a new repo setup. (I work with micro services)

[–] Passerby6497 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, formatting is the only place that I really enjoy using AI. It's great at pumping out blocks of stuff and frequently gets the general idea of what I'm going for with successive variables or tasks. But when you ask it to do complex things it wigs out. Like yesterday when it spit out a regex to look for something within multiple encapsulation chars just fine, but telling it to remove one of the chars it was looking for was impossible, apparently. Spent 5 min doing something I figured out in 2 minutes on a regex test site.