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> I use it for routine coding tasks like generating scaffolding or writing tests

IDK this sounds a whole lot like paying for snippets

Almost. It’s worse though. It’s using snippets without using grey matter and shifting blame if needed.

A snippet for a for loop in your editor, yeah, go ahead. A “snippet for “make this spec into half assed code” is a wholly different story.

Overpaid bubble snippets at best.

Framed this way, it's useful for saving time creating or finding those snippets at least.

for<TAB>….

Yeh, you are right. A snippet for they would have taken longer than booting an agent and let it hallucinate for—loop parameters that didn’t even exist.

This hasn't been the case in my experience, but I don't doubt it can happen.

I still think that's missing the point of LLMs; they're sources of plausible text continuations. Their strength is using them in places where the actual semantics of their output isn't important.

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