Unpopular Opinion
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How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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I've spent many many hours working with LLMs to produce code. Actually, it's an addictive loop, like pulling a slot machine. You forget what you're actually trying to accomplish, you just need the code to work. It's kinda scary. But the deeper you get, the worse the code gets. And eventually you realize, the LLM doesn't know what it's talking about. Not sometimes, ever.
It has been useful for me with poorly documented libraries, not generating more than code snippets or maybe small utilities.
It's more of an API search engine to me. I find it's about 80% correct but it's easier to search for a specific method to make sure it does what you expect than scroll through pages of generated class documentation, half of which look like internal implementation details I won't need to care about unless I'm really digging into it as a power user.
Also, even if the method isn't correct or is more convoluted to use than a more direct one. it's usually in the same module as the correct one.