Comment by doug_durham
1 day ago
This is exactly the way I succeed. I ask it to do little bits at a time. I think that people have issues when they point the tools at a large code base and say "make it better". That's not the current sweet spot of the tools. Getting rid of boiler plate has been a game changer for me.
I think my currently average code writing speed is 1 keyword per hour or something as nearly all my time coding is spent either reading the doc (to check my assumptions) or copy-pasting another block of code I have. The very short bust of writing code like I would write prose is done so rarely I don't even bother remembering them.
I've never written boilerplate. I copy them from old projects (the first time was not boilerplate, it was learning the technology) or other files, and do some fast editing (vim is great for this).