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nijaveyesterday at 2:50 PM1 replyview on HN

>No, the code is actually almost always correct

That's not my experience, especially when the inputs are bugs or performance issues. It frequently hallucinates and misdiagnosis without a guiding hand. However, it can still RCA and analyze well and improve efficiency if you keep an eye on what it's doing and push it the right direction.

> If you were to give human developers the same amount of feature/scope documentation you would also see your productivity skyrocket.

I think you run into a ceiling how fast a person can digest and analyze the info compared to a machine


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BoxedEmpathyyesterday at 7:35 PM

What tools are you using? What settings? What process? What's your code review like?

I think this varies a lot. I find with a c++ project I'm working on that the LLM needs a lot of guardrails and guidance, and still gets a lot wrong. But with a vite/js project it often one shots complex and intricate changes in large codebases.