Comment by ookblah
6 hours ago
yeah i definitely enjoy the craft and love of writing boilerplate or manually correcting simple errors or looking up functions /s. i hate how it's even divided into "two camps", it's more like a big venn diagram.
6 hours ago
yeah i definitely enjoy the craft and love of writing boilerplate or manually correcting simple errors or looking up functions /s. i hate how it's even divided into "two camps", it's more like a big venn diagram.
Who write boilerplate this day? I just lift the code from the examples in the docs (especially css frameworks). And I love looking at functions docs, because after doing it a few times, you develop an holistic understanding of the library and your speed increases. Kinda like learning a foreign language. You can use an app to translate everything, or asks for the correct word when the needs arises. The latter is a bit frustrating at the beginning, but that’s the only way to become fluent.
Seriously, I see this claim thrown around as though everyone writes the same starting template 50 times a week. Like, if you've got a piece of "boilerplate" code you're constantly rewriting... Save It! Put it in a repo or a snippet somewhere that you can just copy-paste when you need it.
You don't need a multi-million dollar LLM to give you slightly different boilerplate snippets when you already have a text editor on your computer to save them.
i think everyone here has extremely different ideas of what AI coding actually is and it's frustrating because basically everyone is strawmanning (myself included probably), as if using it means i'm not looking at documentation or not understanding what is goin on at all times.
it's not about having the LLM write some "starter pack" toy scaffold. i means when i implement functionality across different classes and need to package that up and adapt, i can just tell the LLM how to approach it and it can produce entire sections of code that would literally just be adaptations of certain things. or to refactor certain pieces that would just be me re-arranging shit.
maybe that's not "boilerplate", but to me it's a collosal waste of my time that could be spent trying to solve a new problem. you can't package that up into a "code snippet" and it's not worth the time carefully crafting templates. LLM can do it faster, better, and cost me near nothing.
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Maybe all code is boilerplate for them? I use libraries and frameworks exactly for the truly boilerplate part. But I still try to understand those code I depends on, as some times I want to deviate from the defaults. Or the bug might be in there.
It’s when you try to use an exotic language, you realize the amount of work that has been done to minimize dev time in more mainstream languages.