I feel like I’ve found a fairly sweet spot with LLMs and coding. I use them almost entirely like a rubber ducky. Any small bits of code that they do generate I then diligently try to understand, see inefficiencies or issues and come up with a better solution.
This is a pretty slow process so they don’t speed me up at all. They just make the initial discovery may be a little bit easier? As Google has gotten worse and especially if I’m working in a code base with limited documentation or bad documentation, I found them to be useful to get my bearings. I always go into it with a paranoia that anything they generate could be a disaster so I have to do extra due diligence.
I’ve found that they’re pretty good at generating a couple lines of code, though I have to usually refine it a lot. Anything more than that seems to be more trouble than it’s worth.
However, I have found them to be a great tool for learning even if I’m not sure if what they’re putting out is correct. It will usually lead me to start thinking about things and looking deeper into documentation and research papers, etc.
Yeah this is all bit click bait. That broken rust song topped the digital sales charts, which is basically tracking Apple Music downloads. No one buys music anymore. They topped it with 3000 sales at a dollar each.