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Code examples generated by LLMs CANNOT work without supervision and review of an experienced engineer.

My experience as someone who also hates the hype cycle is that I forced myself to try it to generate code despite being deeply skeptical. I havent had a single good experience, meaning getting the code that does the thing I want.

I've also tried leetcode exercises and also failed here. And that's what surprised me the most - surely if anything it should be able to get right publicly available questions with publicly available solutions? I don't get it.

Once I asked it for a name of people, and I asked it to format it as an html table and it did that right which was nice...

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