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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I think of ai more as an enhanced autocomplete. Instead of autocompleting function calls, it can autocomplete entire lines.

Unit tests are fairly repetitive, so it does a decent job of autocompleting those, needing only minor corrections

I’m still up in the air over regexes. It does generate something but I’m not sure it adds value

I haven’t had much success with the results of generating larger sections of code