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AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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imo it's the opposite, AI is good at starting projects by giving you boilerplate code, but bad at considering the full context of an existing project. Better to be doing the larger structure stuff yourself and only giving the LLM self contained tasks.