• MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Hell yea. Our unit test coverage went way up because you can blow through test creation in second. I had a large complicated migration from one data set to another with specific mutations based on weird rules and GPT got me 80% of the way there and with a little nudging basically got it perfect. Code that would’ve taken a few hours took about 6 prompts. If I’m curious about a new library I can get a working example right away to see how everything fits together. When these articles say there’s no benefit I feel people aren’t using these tools or don’t know how to use them effectively.

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, it’s useful, you just gotta keep it on a short leash, which is difficult when you don’t know what you’re doing

      Basically, it’s a useful tool for experienced developers that know what to look out for

      • AWildMimicAppears@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        From the combined comments it looks like if you are a beginner or a pro then it’s great; if you only have just enough knowledge to be dangerous (in german that’s proverbial “gefährliches Halbwissen”) you should probably stay away from it :-)