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Co"worker" spent 7 weeks building a simple C# MVC app with ChatGPT
I think I don't have to tell you how it went. Lets just say I spent more time debugging "his" code than mine.
I will be downvoted to oblivion, but hear me out: local llm's isn't that bad for simple scripts development. NDA? No problem, that a local instance. No coding experience? No problems either, QWQ can create and debug whole thing. Yeah, it's "better" to do it yourself, learn code and everything. But I'm simple tech support. I have no clue how code works (that kinda a lie, but you got the idea), nor do I paid to for that. But I do need to sort 500 users pulled from database via corp endpoint, that what I paid for. And I have to decide if I want to do that manually, or via script that llm created in less than ~5 minutes. Cause at the end of the day, I will be paid same amount of money.
It even can create simple gui with Qt on top of that script, isn't that just awesome?
As someone who somewhat recently wasted 5 hours debugging a "simple" bash script that Cursor shit out which was exploding k8s nodes—nah, I'll pass. I rewrote the script from scratch in 45 minutes after I figured out what was wrong. You do you, but I don't let LLMs near my software.
I’ve had success with Claude, but there’s always a layer of separation. I ask it to do something, read what it produced, and decide if it’s garbage or not. And rewrite or discard as necessary. Though counting by LOC mainly I’ve used it for writing tests.