To be fair, it's very rare that articles praising the power of AI coding assistants are ever substantiated, either.

In the end, everyone is kind of just sharing their own experiences. You'll only know whether they work for you by trying it yourself.

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mrguyorama a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> You'll only know whether they work for you by trying it yourself.

But at the same time, even this doesn't really work.

The lucky gambler thinks lottery tickets are a good investment. That does not mean they are.

I've found very very limited value from these things, but they work alright in those rather constrained circumstances.

And you can't try it out without for the most part feeding the training machine for at best free.

Leynos a day ago | parent | next [-]

Codex and Claude Code allows you to opt out of model training.

Perhaps you don't believe OpenAI and Anthropic when they say this, but it is a requirement upon which most enterprise contracts are predicated.

pc86 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Are there a lot of products or services you can try out without using the product or service?

	▲	franktankbank a day ago \| parent [-]
		Without sending info to their servers, yes.