In my experience using AI for that replaces legthy documentation searches, with reading lengthy AI output that turns out to be full of halucinations. Net time saved usually negative.
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Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 days agoWhile you are correct, as all tools AI is not bad per se.
If you use ai to replace more lengthy documentation searches and write your own code that works out pretty well and speed up your work without degrading your coding. Granted, I got plainly incorrect answers as well, but at least I managed to be much more efficient.
Treat LLMs/ai as a glorified documentation aggregator and that’s how you correctly use that tool.
Like, use a knife to cut and cook meat, not to cut another person body, and that’s how you correctly use that tool too.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 days ago
My recent experience regarding questions on documentation:
- dovecot: shitty useless responses, totally made up
- Gentoo linux: to be checked twice and mostly wrong or fake
- godot: accurate and correct almost always, maybe examples not always 100% correct
- C++ standard 17: correct, never had a wrong reply from llm, also the exact ples where on point and correct
I think that’s all what I have used it for in the last six months.
Note: I used only Google search AI llm, nothing else.
So it seems that depends on what you ask.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I like it to generate my git comments.
Sometimes I just don’t know how to actually describe what I did.
artwork@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No, thank you. Sorry, never. You do you.
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 days ago
Maybe you should check 5hat again. I never used llm before 2025, but proved itself useful for a few tasks. Yes check and verification still needed, but indeed made my life easier and got taken done faster. Quality was still a good as what I could do myself. Maybe that doesn’t speak well of myself I don’t know.