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One Month Without AI

188 points · 228 comments · saibotk

  1. anygivnthursday · · focus · HN ↗
    Where I find LLMs most useful is maybe not even writing code (though helps with boilerplate and test cases, mechanical refactoring, translation from one form into another, rebases and conflicts), but debugging weird production issues, where I have to pull data from multiple places (with often horrible UX) and correlate the data and logs and code. Just need to be careful to follow its reasoning as it can easily go down the wrong route if it misses some important part of the contex, but an SME in the area spots that and directs the agent accordingly. This cut down time for investigations quite a bit.
    1. slopinthebag · · focus · HN ↗
      agreed, even if i couldn't use an llm for code generation i would still find them really useful.
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