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I've been really struggling to get AI to write good quality c# code, or to be precise, what I see as good quality. I'm in two minds on if it matters or not.

On one hand I think, I want to be proud of it, I want to be able to explain it, if it breaks I want to be able to figure out why.

On the other hand, AI can do all of that with badly written code, so who cares.

Edit: however, it still feels like an amazing power tool, but it has taken me months to figure out how to use it.

I have the opposite experience of everyone else I follow online, I find it terrible at green field and great at brownfield. Green field it makes horrible choices as it has nothing to follow.

I'm in no way a very good programmer, or very smart, but the code I saw most of my co-workers writing was about the same quality as AI, not very good.

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