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Comments by "p11" (@porky1118) on "NeetCode's Hot Take Is SO Good" video.
I also didn't find a proper use case for using LLMs for programming. The best use case would be getting started with a new tool by letting it generate a base program. But even then it usually uses an old version of my library or includes some minor mistakes. Or it even tells me about features which don't exist at all. So the only programming related task, where LLMs are actually useful is as an alternative to googling/ducking (which basically means reading documentation or stackoverflow). If I want to edit some documentation file I rather ask "How do I edit my documentation file to do this?", and often it just works. Or for simple commmand line programs. Something like "How do I resize all images in a directory with fish shell?"
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One other case where AI helped me was some function. I told it some results: f(0, x) = 0 f(x, 0) = 0 f(0.5, 0.5) = 0.5 f(1, x) = 1 f(x, 1) = 1 And the AI gave me exactly what I wanted: f(a,b) = ab / (ab + (1 - a)(1 - b)) I didn't expect that coming :)
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AI even helped me fix a bug. I configured the network interface enp2s0, but it didn't work. I showed the AI the list of network interfaces, and it was just what I expected. So I told the AI, the network interface is enp0s2 just as expected. Then the AI told me that enp2s0 is not enp0s2. First I thought, I just made a typo, but the data in the config the actual device name actually were different.
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