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I've often experienced that I had what I thought an obscure and very intellectually challenging coding problem, and after prompting the LLM, it basically one-shotted it.

I've been profoundly humbled by the the experience, but then it occurred to me that what I thought to be an unique problem has been solved by quite a few people before and the model had plenty of references to pull from.

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Do you have any examples?

Yeah for the positive example, I described the syntax of a domain-specific-language, and the AI basically one-shotted the parsing rules, that only needed minor fixes.

For a counterexample, working on any part of a codebase that's 100% application specific business logic, with our custom abstractions, the AI is usually so lost that it's basically not even worth using it, as the chances of writing correct and usable code is next to zero.

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