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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by rsanheim on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:26AM (#44296866)
It's just Pattern matching. Most APIs, and hell, most code is not unique or special. Its all been done a thousands of times before. Thats why an LLM can be helpful on some tool you've written just for yourself and never released anywhere.

As to 'knows the answer', I'm don't even know what that means with these tools. All I know is if it is helpful or not.

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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by danielbln on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:53AM (#44298023)
Also, most problems are decomposable into simpler, certainly not novel parts. That intractable unicorn problem I hear so much about is probably composed of very pedestrian sub-problems.
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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by genewitch on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @09:01PM (#44305657)
to what does "unicorn problem" refer to? a specific thing or a general idea?
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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by danielbln on Friday June 20, 2025 @06:18AM (#44326299)
General idea, it comes up often in LLM discussion from engineers lamenting that LLMs can never solve any novel problems. This might as well be true but as said, almost any problem can be decomposed into bite sized, non-novel parts.
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Re:Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me by CamperBob2 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @11:55AM (#44300624)
'Pattern matching' isn't just all you need, it's all there is.
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