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Comment by gopalv

16 days ago

> for those of you using AI tools more than I am, how do LLMs handle things like API updates?

From recent experience, 95% of changes are good and are done in 15 minutes.

5% of changes are made, but break things because the API might have documentation, but your code probably doesn't document "Why I use this here" and instead has "What I do here" in bits.

In hindsight it was an overall positive experience, but if you'd asked me at the end of the first day, I'd have been very annoyed.

I thought this would take me from Mon-Fri if I was asked to estimate, but it took me till Wed afternoon.

But half a day in I thought I was 95% done, but then it took me 2+ more days to close that 5% of hidden issues.

And that's because the test-suite was catching enough class of issues to go find them everywhere.