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Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
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Re: Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
#52I have seen none across ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot.
They may be somewhat useful for some small function/lookup, but:
- they will always, without fail, hallucinate non-existent functions, methods, types and libraries. Your job becomes a constant code review, and I'm not here to babysit an eager junior
- claude will always, without fail, rewrite and break your code, and any fixes you've done to Claude's code. Even if you tell it not to. Again, you end up babysitting an eager junior
- fo any question outside of StackOverflow's top-3 languages and top-10 libraries they are next to useless as they know nothing about anything
These are not "AIs" or code assistants or autocompletes. These are generic token prediction machines which don't care if you write code or Harry Potter fanfics.
If you train them specifically on vast amounts of code and documentation, then maybe, just maybe, they may actually be useful
Re: Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Our company is very not OK with sharing IP with the cloud to the extent that we only recently started using github. So we're banned from using these things.
Then why are you using github at all?
Because Microsoft understands corporate needs, and can provide very specific guarantees to corporate clients.
Re: Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
#54The competition in AI editors is a bit silly at the moment. Everyone and their dog are "building" an AI assisted editor now by duct taping Ollama onto VS Code. I don't like my data being sent to untrusted parties, so I cannot evaluate most of these. On top of that, the things keep evolving as well, and editors that I dismissed a few months ago, are now all of a sudden turning into amazing productivity boosters, thank…
> I don't like my data being sent to untrusted parties, so I cannot evaluate most of these.
> ...
> My money is on Cursor [1]
Cursor also sends all your data who knows where
Re: Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
#55The competition in AI editors is a bit silly at the moment. Everyone and their dog are "building" an AI assisted editor now by duct taping Ollama onto VS Code. I don't like my data being sent to untrusted parties, so I cannot evaluate most of these. On top of that, the things keep evolving as well, and editors that I dismissed a few months ago, are now all of a sudden turning into amazing productivity boosters, thank…
> I don't like my data being sent to untrusted parties, so I cannot evaluate most of these. > ... > My money is on Cursor [1] Cursor also sends all your data who knows where
Indeed. I am only using Cursor for some hobby projects.
While we're on this subject, is there a simple way to ensure that VS Code extensions do not contact external servers?
Re: Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
#56One use cases I like a lot is copy paste the entire error from the console into the chat window. No explanation or preamble. Just raw output. Most of the time I get some useful leads out of it. It’s not always solving it entirely for me but even a hint in the right direction can save you hours of digging in the wrong direction.
Re: Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
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Re: Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't like my data being sent to untrusted parties, so I cannot evaluate most of these. > ... > My money is on Cursor [1] Cursor also sends all your data who knows where
Indeed. I am only using Cursor for some hobby projects. While we're on this subject, is there a simple way to ensure that VS Code extensions do not contact external servers?
> is there a simple way to ensure that VS Code extensions do not contact external servers?
Unfortunately, no idea, but it's a good question I'd like to have an answer to
Re: Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then why are you using github at all?
Because Microsoft understands corporate needs, and can provide very specific guarantees to corporate clients.
Only if you trust Microsoft to guarantee that none of your data will ever make it out of their data centers.
Re: Ask HN: How have you integrated LLMs in your development workflow?
#60Like many others I'm working on my own tool [1] that helps me make progress in my hobby projects. An example outcome of using this tool is my js13k game [2] (the idea and majority of code). The tool is being developed using the tool itself (inception ;)). This experience of developing such tool is invaluable, I doubt I would be able to learn so much about LLMs and AI service providers if I was using some off-the-shel…
Lovely project. Happy to see it’s in TypeScript for once. Also very clean code base and good abstractions!