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Do chatgpt or other language models help you code more efficiently and faster? Is it worth spending your money for it?

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[–] detectivemittens@beehaw.org 7 points 6 months ago

Yes and no. I compare it to a graphing calculator: I know how to graph a parabola by hand already, but I don’t want to have to do it over and over already. That’s just busy work for me.

LLMs are similar that way. There’s often a lot of boilerplate to get out of the way that’s just busy work to write over and over again. LLMs are great at generating some of that scaffolding.

LLMs have also become a lot more helpful as Google search has gotten worse over time.