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[-] GenChadT@programming.dev 19 points 23 hours ago

That's my problem with "AI" in general. It's seemingly impossible to "engineer" a complete piece of software when using LLMs in any capacity that isn't editing a line or two inside singular functions. Too many times I've asked GPT/Gemini to make a small change to a file and had to revert the request because it'd take it upon itself to re-engineer the architecture of my entire application.

[-] hisao@ani.social 6 points 21 hours ago

I make it write entire functions for me, one prompt = one small feature or sometimes one or two functions which are part of a feature, or one refactoring. I make manual edits fast and prompt the next step. It easily does things for me like parsing obscure binary formats or threading new piece of state through the whole application to the levels it's needed, or doing massive refactorings. Idk why it works so good for me and so bad for other people, maybe it loves me. I only ever used 4.1 and possibly 4o in free mode in Copilot.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Are you using Copilot in agent mode? That's where it breaks shit. If you're using it in ask mode with the file you want to edit added to the chat context, then you're probably going to be fine.

[-] hisao@ani.social 1 points 10 hours ago

I'm only using it in edits mode, it's the second of the three modes available.

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Yep, that's also pretty safe.

[-] GenChadT@programming.dev 5 points 18 hours ago

It's an issue of scope. People often give the AI too much to handle at once, myself (admittedly) included.

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