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  • Because it might be something that needs to be done in lots of places. Or it may just be something you don’t want to do so you fire it off then go look at or work on something else.

    Now, that might be useless for your work flow, but not every tool is useful in every circumstance.

    And you can still use it for larger tasks, but often I need to come behind it and clean up its work. Just like you would an intern or junior dev.


  • I haven’t used tools to make stuff from scratch but we do use them, or similar, where I work. What kind of stuff are you prompting it for? I find it works best when you give it a very small/simple task to do. And it’s pretty good when it comes to making tests for existing code.

    But if the main problem is getting math equations and such wrong I’m not sure there is much we can do to help. You’d have to provide it the equations at a minimum and probably explain to it how they should be used.

    But there are definitely times where it can be very frustrating. I had a similar issue yesterday as you did. It made a code change and it wasn’t working how it was supposed to. I kept telling it the problem and it kept trying to fix it but failing. I gave up after far too long and looked at all the code changes it made since it was working correctly before. It just put a change slightly too far down in a process and all I had to do was move it up, wholesale, by like 10 lines and it fixed my problem. Like, how could it not figure out something that simple?

    So, it’s not the best at actually fixing things but does work more often than not. But if you can tell it exactly what code is causing the problem and where you want it to be instead, it’ll fix it.