zlacker

>>blueri+(OP)
It is refreshing to see I am not the only person who cannot get LLMs to say anything valuable. I have tried several times, but the cycle "You're right to question this. I actually didn't do anything you asked for. Here is some more garbage!" gets really old really fast.

It makes me wonder whether everyone else is kidding themselves, or if I'm just holding it wrong.

>>danlit+ag
I don't think you are. I've found some use for cheap and somewhat unreliable machine translation of formal documents, but it doesn't work for idiomatic or rude texts, for example, LLM:s commonly try to avoid 'saying' something offensive about the house of Saud or the White House so I need to push them around to do the thing I want. Sometimes I also 'one-shot' HTML scaffolds because I suck at Tailwind and I only rarely save templates of single file things, they just end up in an unstructured pile.

Some people seem to use them as a database of common programming patterns, but that's something I already have, both hundreds of scaffolds in many programming languages I've made myself and hundreds of FOSS and non-FOSS git repos I've collected out of interest or necessity. Often I also just go look at some public remote repo if I'm reading up on some topic in preparation for an implementation or experiment, mainly because when I ask an LLM the code usually has defects and incoherences and when I look at something that is already in production somewhere it's working and sits in a context I can learn from as well.

But hey, I rarely even use IDE autocomplete for browsing library methods and the like, in part because I've either read the relevant library code or picked a library with good documentation since that tells a lot more about intended use patterns and pitfalls.