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It's only as good as its training data.

Step outside of building basic web/CRUD apps and its accuracy drops off substantially.

Also almost every library it uses is old and insecure.




Yet most work seems to be CRUD related and most SaaS businesses starting up just really need those things mainly.


That last point represents the biggest problem this technology will leave us with. Nobody's going to train LLMs on new libraries or frameworks when writing original code takes an order of magnitude longer than generating code for the 2023 stack.


With LLM's like gemini, which have massive context windows, you can just drop the full documentation for anything in the context window. It dramatically improves output.


I use phind which does searches to provide additional context




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