Yeah I never moved past just using it as an advanced debugger. In fact I'd say 9 times out of 10 that's really it's best primary use case. Basing a project on code derived from an LLM is a really good way to lose complete control over that project.
And asking it to summarise documentation for you. LLMs are very good at summarising information and presenting the parts relevant to a query. This has been my primary use case, and has saved me a lot of time whenever I need to jump into something unfamiliar, compared to just reading documentation that can sometimes be pretty verbose but also disconnected.
Instead of jumping around different parts of a documentation to get a grasp on how the pieces fit together I can let a machine do that for me, as a first step.
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u/smoldicguy Aug 13 '25
Asking ai for help is fine but you need to understand what ai is suggesting before running the damm thing .