jimbokun 3 days ago

> AI is excellent at tasks which involve writing quasi-custom boilerplate (eg. tests which require a lot of mocking)

I wonder if anyone has compared how well the AI auto-generating approach works compared to meta programming approaches (like Lisp macros) meant to address the same kind of issues with repetitive code.

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kazinator 3 days ago

The generation of volumes of boiler plate takes effort; nobody likes to do it.

The problem is, that phase is not the full life cycle of the boiler plate.

You have to live with it afterward.