Comment by mithametacs
1 year ago
I had no choice most of my career doing Rails.
Now I do C++ and I would fight to the death to keep autocomplete.
But Copilot I bought a license for a got a refund for after a few months. In the net, it wastes your time.
And I mean, copilot in particular is especially bad. It refuses lots of valid programming questions. Other LLMs are better. But they still are wrong a lot.
Rails is the worst. No autocomplete. How do Rails devs live like that? I hate it every day lol.
Copilot really helps me as "inline ruby/rails docs". I think the RoR docs are pretty bad and many gems are even worse. Rspec docs are incredibly unclear so I rely on copilot + chatgpt and other files to find out how to do things hah. Usually I reword the question a few times to find multiple solutions and I pick the one I like best.
Did you also try out selfhosted LLM alternatives? How do they perform?
I am looking for a terminal/offline LLM I can use for templating tasks, as most other programming mistakes are caught by my linters and tests anyways.
I’m satisfied bouncing between the free tiers of Claude and ChatGPT
I usually only have like a few hard questions per day, where I have lots of unknown unknowns.
If the LLM doesn’t get me an answer within the free tier number of messages, it’s not gonna get there