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rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

We’ve been poking at it for a while now. The parent company is demanding we see where it can fit. We’ve found some solid spots.

It’s not good at ingesting a sprawling project and rooting in changes in several places, but it’s not bad at looking over a file and making best practice recommendations. I’ve seen it preemptively find some bugs in old code.

If you want to use a popular library you’re not familiar with, it’ll wedge it in your current function reasonably well; you’ll need to touch it, but you probably won’t need to RTFM.

It’s solid at documenting existing code. Make me a manual page for every function/module in this project.

It can make a veteran programmer faster by making boilerplates and looking over their shoulder for problems. It has some limited use for peer programming.

It will NOT let you hire a green programmer instead of a vetran, but it can help a green programmer come up to speed faster as long as you forbid them from copy/paste.

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