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Comment by moooo99

11 hours ago

I mean, the training data also has a cutoff date and changed beyond that are not reflected in the code suggestions.

Also, I know that people love to joke on modern software and JS in particular. But if you take react code from 2020 and drop it into a new react codebase it still works. Even class based components work. Yes, if you jumped on the newest framework bandwagon every time stuff will break all the time, but AI won’t be able to help you with that either. If you went for relatively stable frameworks, you can re use boilerplate completely or with relatively minimal adjustments

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whstl  11 hours ago

React is alright but the framework tooling around it changes a lot.

If you take a project from 2020 it's a bit of a pain to upgrade it.

scarface_74  6 hours ago

True. But LLMs have access to the web. I’ve told ChatGPT plenty of times to verify an SDK API or if I knew the API was new, I just gave it a link to the documentation. This was mostly around various AWS SDKs

  • simonw  6 hours ago

    The search improvements to o3 and o4-mini have made a huge difference in the last couple of weeks.

    I ran this prompt (and others like it) and it actually worked!

      This code needs to be upgraded to the new
  recommended JavaScript library from
  Google. Figure out what that is and
  then look up enough documentation to
  port this code to it

    https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/gemini-image-segmentat...