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Re:When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of... by BiteCode_dev on Thursday May 11, 2023 @02:59AM (#35898705)
That's the gist of it.

People want to use LLM hammers like screw drivers and are disapointed.

Also, since the quality of the context matters a lot for completion, copilot will be way more useful on clean code with beautiful variable names and nice structure flows than on code-golf snippets. Same got chatgpt: write good prose, and it will help you better.

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Re:When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of... by laserlight on Thursday May 11, 2023 @05:08AM (#35899672)
> People want to use LLM hammers like screw drivers and are disapointed.

IMHO, the reason people do so is because LLMs are advertised as such.

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