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Comment by sameerds

6 hours ago

> everyone that claims it makes them so perceptively and clearly faster - how do you know?

For me, AI tools act like supercharged code search and auto complete. I have been able to make changes in complex components that I have rarely worked on. It saved me a week of effort to find the exact API calls that will do what I needed. The AI tool wrote the code and I only had to act as a reviewer. Of course I am familiar with the entire project and I knew the shape of the code to expect. But it saved me from digging out the exact details.

> For me, AI tools act like supercharged ... search and auto complete.

I think that is a fairly good definition of what an LLM is. I'd say the third leg of the definition is adjustable randomness.