If you need to jump into large, unknown, codebases LLMs are pretty damn good at explaining how they work and where you can find stuff.
A lot faster than clicking through functions in an IDE or doing a desperate "find in project" for something.
And just sticking a stack trace in an LLM assistant, in my opinion, in about 90% of the cases I've encountered will either give you the correct fix immediately or at the very least point you to the correct place to fix things.
I'll accept there may be cases where you can take the LLM output and use it as a suggestion, or something to be carefully checked, and perhaps save some time. So there may be uses for them even if they sometimes generate complete garbage.
Perhaps, but I thought the original poster was talking about replacing the "output" from arbitrary professionals, like doctors, lawyers or architects. I'm a bit wary of what may go wrong.
I'm not trying to advertise anything here, but i'm telling you i can create apps that feel apple level quality and its not garbage.
I built this in 2 weeks I had never known what swift is or anything. I wasn't a coder or app maker, but now I can build something like this in 2 weeks. Let me know if its garbage. I'll love criticism and I'll look for something else if its actually garbage.
I'd be wary of LLM-generated code, even if it seems to work in test cases. Are you sure it doesn't go wrong in edge cases, or have security problems? If you don't even know the language, you can't do any meaningful code review.
Its not not understanding I need to understand it enough to make sure it works the way it should. Its not like every company is generating high quality level code. The apps are very shitty.
