Re:Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
by input_sh on Friday November 28, 2025 @04:11AM
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From the top of https://pocketbase.io/faq/
> If you don't have the time to at least skim through the documentation and you plan to solely rely on some AI tool, then please do NOT use PocketBase!
It's a niche little product that's alpha-level quality, I don't know why you would expect LLMs to be good at it.
Re:Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
by Humphrey on Friday November 28, 2025 @03:50AM
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Not with Pocketbase - as I haven't found I've needed to look into the docs too much. But I have come across a whole bunch of areas LLM's seem to always answer incorrectly for. For example, ChatGPT has almost never corrected told me how to use the UI in Davinci Resolve.
Re:Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
by p2detar on Friday November 28, 2025 @04:24AM
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I tried to use LLMs to help me with server-side pb coding, but it was mostly a flop. LLMs don't have an up-to-date state of pb's API. 2 out of 3 times the LLM would give at least a hint how to go about something and the rest is me manually editing the code, reading the docs or looking at pb's source code. All in all, I consider it a nice "pair-programming" type of experience but one can't rely on LLMs to do the pb work for you.
Re:Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
by catketch on Friday November 28, 2025 @03:04PM
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This is what worked for me… clone the pb repo and stick reference to it in my agents.md. I put additional notes in my own addendum.md in the line cloned repo. ChatGPT-codex variants handle it nearly flawlessly and no issues with being out of date. I use the same pattern for all “niche” libraries
Wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience?