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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

About all they are good for is generating boilerplate code. Just far less efficiently than a snippet library.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Yup. All that effort just to be good at basic code scaffolding.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I keep getting told that AI is good at boilerplate code, and like, so is eclipse – if you know the kb shortcuts to autogenerate method stubs, classes, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Of course. We’re just pointing out a potential niche use.

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