Comment by Macha

My experience in 2024 AI tools like copilot was if the code compiled first time it was an above average result and I’d need a lot of manual tweaking.

There were definitely languages where it worked better (JS), but if I told people here I had to spend a lot of time tweaking after it, at least half of them assumed I was being really anal about spacing or variable names, which was simply not the case.

It’s still the case for cheaper models (GPT-mini remains a waste of my timetime), but there’s mid level models like Minimax M2 that can produce working code and stuff like Sonnet can produce usable code.

I’m not sure the delta is enough for me that I’d pay for these tools on my own though…