Comment by jegerfaerdig on 01/12/2024 at 12:18 UTC

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AI is so good for boilerplate code. Sure I could spend 25 minutes googling the intricacies of matplotlib for the 50th time, or I could just describe the figure i want in plain text. Sure it's basic and has been done billions of times before, but that's why AI is so good at it.

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Comment by mxzf at 01/12/2024 at 14:50 UTC

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AI is good for the sort of boilerplate stuff you could find in 10 min on StackOverflow as-is. It's mostly just a glorified search engine for stuff like that.

It's absolute garbage if you have a problem that's at all novel, but it's just good enough at scraping the web for boilerplate stuff to fool a lot of people into thinking it has a clue what it's doing.