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ToucanLoucan 2 hours ago

I technically use it for programming, though really for two broad things:

* Sorting. I have never been able to get my head around sorting arrays, especially in the Swift syntax. Generating them is awesome.

* Extensions/Categories in Swift/Objective C. "Write me an extension to the String class that will accept an array of Int8s as an argument, and include safety checks." Beautiful.

That said I don't know why you'd use it for anything more. Sometimes I'll have it generate like, the skeleton of something I'm working on, a view controller with X number of outlets of Y type, with so and so functions stubbed in, but even that's going down because as I build I realize my initial idea can be improved.

malkia 18 minutes ago | parent [-]

I've been using LLMs as calculators for words, like they can summarize, spot, correct, but often can be wrong about this - especially when I have to touch language I haven't used in a while (Python, Powershell, Rust as recent examples), or sub-system (SuperPrefetch on WIndows, Or why audio is dropping on coworker's machines when they run some of the tools, and like this... don't ask me why), and all kinds of obscure subjects (where I'm sure experts exists, but when you need them they are not easy (as in "nearby") to reach for, and even then might not help)

But now my grain of salt has increased - it's still helpful, but much like a real calculator - there is limit (in precision), and what it can do.

For one it still can't make good jokes :) (my litmus test)