Re:Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?
by SatvikBeri on Monday May 26, 2025 @06:43AM
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I find LLMs make me about 10% more productive – which is great, but nowhere near as extreme as some claims.
Cursor autocompletes a lot of stuff I would have typed anyway, and LLM search is a strong complement to Google, though not a direct replacement. Generating more than a few lines usually gives me bad code, but often suggests libraries I didn't know about, especially outside my area of expertise.
There's just not a lot of people talking about middling results because the extremes tend to eat up the conversation.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?
by jimbokun on Monday May 26, 2025 @07:01PM
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I do find AI a replacement to Google most of the time, because now when I search on Google the Gemini results at the top generally give me what I wanted to know.
Cursor autocompletes a lot of stuff I would have typed anyway, and LLM search is a strong complement to Google, though not a direct replacement. Generating more than a few lines usually gives me bad code, but often suggests libraries I didn't know about, especially outside my area of expertise.
There's just not a lot of people talking about middling results because the extremes tend to eat up the conversation.