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I haven't actually had that much luck with having them output a boring API boilerplate in large Java projects. Like "I need to create a new BarOperation that has to go in a different set of classes and files and API prefixes than all the FooOperations and I don't feel like copy pasting all the yaml and Java classes" but the AI has problems following this. Maybe they work better in small projects.

I actually like LLMs better for creative thinking because they work like a very powerful search engine that can combine unrelated results and pull in adjacent material I would never personally think of.




> Like "I need to create a new BarOperation that has to go in a different set of classes and files and API prefixes than all the FooOperations and I don't feel like copy pasting all the yaml and Java classes" but the AI has problems following this.

To be fair, I also have problems following this.




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