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AI is useful as a tool but it is far from trustworthy.

I just used Grok to write some CRON scripts for me, gave me perfectly good results, if you know exactly what you want, it is great.

It is not the end of software programmers though and is very dangerous to give it too much leeway because you will almost certainly end up with problems.

I agree with the conclusion that a hybrid model is possible.

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> if you know exactly what you want, it is great.

Kinda kills the utility if you need to know what you want out tho...

It speeds up code writing, it's not useless. Best use case for me is to help me understand libraries that are sparsely documented (e.g. dotnet roslyn api).

edit: spelling

If I can get 100 lines generated instantly while explaining it in 25, scan the answer just to validate it and then, no wait, add other 50 lines as I forgot something before. All that in minutes then I'm happy.

Plus I can detach the "tell the AI" part from the actual running of the code. That's pretty powerful to me.

For instance, I could be on the train thinking of something, chat it over with an LLM, get it where I want and then pause before actually copying it into the project.

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