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this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
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With the proper documentation llms are great at helping with code. Take phind which uses GPT-3.5 but with sources. Its great for small code snippets and pulls it's answers for documentation and stackoverflow
I've had free access to github copilot since beta and it's great, especially when working with unknown libraries or languages. I don't have to pull out documention and I can go on with the logic. Of course it often hallucinate, the code it spits out need to be checked, but still, it saves a lot of time.
... Eh, no. I've seen GPT generate some incredibly unsound C despite being given half a page of text on the problem.
C is already incredibly unsound /hj
I've had some good experiences with asking Bing to write a few lines of VBA or R. Normally, I'll just ask it solve a specific problem, but then I'll modify the code to suit my specific needs.