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1. cess11+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-05-22 08:17:44
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.

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