top | item 46979069 (no title) snek_case | 18 days ago LLMs are super efficient at generating boilerplate for lots of APIs, which is a time consuming and tedious part of programming. discuss order hn newest co_king_3|18 days ago > LLMs are super efficient at generating boilerplate for lots of APIsYes they are. This is true.> which is a time consuming and tedious part of programming.In my experience, this is a tedious part of programming which I do not spend very much time on.In my experience LLM generated API boilerplate is acceptable, yet still sloppier than anything I would write by hand.In my experience LLMs are quite bad at generating essentially every other type of code, especially if you are not generating JS/TS or HTML/CSS. cfiggers|18 days ago > They are aggressively manipulating social media with astroturfed accounts, in particular this site and Reddit.
co_king_3|18 days ago > LLMs are super efficient at generating boilerplate for lots of APIsYes they are. This is true.> which is a time consuming and tedious part of programming.In my experience, this is a tedious part of programming which I do not spend very much time on.In my experience LLM generated API boilerplate is acceptable, yet still sloppier than anything I would write by hand.In my experience LLMs are quite bad at generating essentially every other type of code, especially if you are not generating JS/TS or HTML/CSS.
cfiggers|18 days ago > They are aggressively manipulating social media with astroturfed accounts, in particular this site and Reddit.
co_king_3|18 days ago
Yes they are. This is true.
> which is a time consuming and tedious part of programming.
In my experience, this is a tedious part of programming which I do not spend very much time on.
In my experience LLM generated API boilerplate is acceptable, yet still sloppier than anything I would write by hand.
In my experience LLMs are quite bad at generating essentially every other type of code, especially if you are not generating JS/TS or HTML/CSS.
cfiggers|18 days ago