Comment by dismalaf
5 days ago
> Still saves a lot of time vs typing everything from scratch
Probably very language specific. I use a lot of Ruby, typing things takes no time it's so terse. Instead I get to spend 95% of my time pondering my problems (or prompting the LLM)...
With a proper IDE you don't type much even in Java/.Net, it's all autocomplete anyway. "Too verbose" complaints are mostly from Notepad lovers, and those who never needed to read somebody else's code.
It can create a whole dashboard view in elixir in a few seconds that is 100 lines long. No way I can type that in the same time.
In my experience the problem is never creating the dashboard view (there's a million examples of it out there anyway to copy/paste), but making sense of the data. Especially if you're doing anything even remotely novel.
If you're making a dashboard view your productivity is zero, making it faster just multiplies zero by a bigger number.
Edit: this comment was more a result of me being in a terrible mood than a true claim. Sorry.