Comment by jwpapi

It was challenging for me as well, but my pace and level is now that I use it for these cases at the moment:

New language, infrastructure, general level of understanding of something I barely have an idea of.

Rubber duck debugging, if i dont know the correct solution

Checking my code for issues and bugs.

But not for:

- writing my code - agentic coding (help me)

The inference has reduced drastically. It’s basically just chatting. I don’t let it write anything, but sometimes I purposely use the browser window instead of them sitting in my codebase, because I know it gets things subtly wrong and migth focus on the wrong things.

The same way people used to say don’t copypaste code at least write it out I think it’s still true. It helps to buidl the mental model and to find the right abstractions.