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0 pointsmithametacs1y ago0 comments

I had no choice most of my career doing Rails.

Now I do C++ and I would fight to the death to keep autocomplete.

But Copilot I bought a license for a got a refund for after a few months. In the net, it wastes your time.

And I mean, copilot in particular is especially bad. It refuses lots of valid programming questions. Other LLMs are better. But they still are wrong a lot.

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cookiengineer1y ago· 1 in thread

Did you also try out selfhosted LLM alternatives? How do they perform?

I am looking for a terminal/offline LLM I can use for templating tasks, as most other programming mistakes are caught by my linters and tests anyways.

mithametacsOP1y ago

I’m satisfied bouncing between the free tiers of Claude and ChatGPT

I usually only have like a few hard questions per day, where I have lots of unknown unknowns.

If the LLM doesn’t get me an answer within the free tier number of messages, it’s not gonna get there

tobyhinloopen1y ago

Rails is the worst. No autocomplete. How do Rails devs live like that? I hate it every day lol.

Copilot really helps me as "inline ruby/rails docs". I think the RoR docs are pretty bad and many gems are even worse. Rspec docs are incredibly unclear so I rely on copilot + chatgpt and other files to find out how to do things hah. Usually I reword the question a few times to find multiple solutions and I pick the one I like best.

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