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0 pointspdimitar1y ago0 comments

> I can just tell Copilot to do it and check its work

Checking other entities' code is not trivial and very error-prone.

I get what you're saying but I have my doubts if me doing the whole work manually would be slower than asking an assistant + doing an extensive code review.

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theshrike791y ago

This is highly repetitive code where the options are pretty much either me copy-pasting a piece of code and changing a bit here and there or having an AI do it.

The latter won't make stupid small mistakes, I will (and have)

And I'm checking like 10 lines at a time, related to code in the context I've got in my head.

I need to review 100x bigger PRs done by humans of varying skill regularly - related to other parts of the project I'm not intimately familiar.

pdimitarOP1y ago

Okay, but isn't your own code generator a better option in this case? You know, a for loop with some parameters that spits out code?

theshrike791y ago

How can a "for loop" generate me 10 API endpoints in C# that call business logic functions with the parameters received?

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0 pointspdimitar1y ago0 comments

> I can just tell Copilot to do it and check its work

Checking other entities' code is not trivial and very error-prone.

I get what you're saying but I have my doubts if me doing the whole work manually would be slower than asking an assistant + doing an extensive code review.

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theshrike791y ago

This is highly repetitive code where the options are pretty much either me copy-pasting a piece of code and changing a bit here and there or having an AI do it.

The latter won't make stupid small mistakes, I will (and have)

And I'm checking like 10 lines at a time, related to code in the context I've got in my head.

I need to review 100x bigger PRs done by humans of varying skill regularly - related to other parts of the project I'm not intimately familiar.

pdimitarOP1y ago

Okay, but isn't your own code generator a better option in this case? You know, a for loop with some parameters that spits out code?

theshrike791y ago

How can a "for loop" generate me 10 API endpoints in C# that call business logic functions with the parameters received?

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse