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minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoI think of ai more as an enhanced autocomplete. Instead of autocompleting function calls, it can autocomplete entire lines. Unit tests are fairly repetitive, so it does a decent job of autocompleting those, needing only minor corrections I’m still up in the air over regexes. It does generate something but I’m not sure it adds value I haven’t had much success with the results of generating larger sections of code
I think of ai more as an enhanced autocomplete. Instead of autocompleting function calls, it can autocomplete entire lines.
Unit tests are fairly repetitive, so it does a decent job of autocompleting those, needing only minor corrections
I’m still up in the air over regexes. It does generate something but I’m not sure it adds value
I haven’t had much success with the results of generating larger sections of code