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		BiteCode_dev on May 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When you lose the ability to write, you also lose ... That's the gist of it. People want to use LLM hammers like screw drivers and are disapointed. Also, since the quality of the context matters a lot for completion, copilot will be way more useful on clean code with beautiful variable names and nice structure flows than on code-golf snippets. Same got chatgpt: write good prose, and it will help you better.

laserlight on May 11, 2023 [–]

> People want to use LLM hammers like screw drivers and are disapointed.

IMHO, the reason people do so is because LLMs are advertised as such.

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