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Re:GPT-5 for Developers by disgruntledphd2 on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:17AM (#44838031)
> The more boilerplate-y the part is, the better it is. I have not really found one model that can yet reliably one-shot things in real life projects, but they do get quie close.

This definitely feels right from my experience. Small tasks that are present in the training data = good output with little effort.

Infra tasks (something that isn't in the training data as often) = sad times and lots of spelunking (to be fair Gemini has done a good job for me eventually, even though it told me to nuke my database (which sadly, was a good solution)).

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