> Im actually very curious why AI use is such a bi-modal experience. I've used AI to move multi thousand line codebases between languages. I've created new apps from scratch with it.
I think this depends on the nature of your work. I've been successful with using LLMS for creating things from scratch, for myself, especially in a domain I was not familiar with and am quite happy with that. Things like proof of concepts or exploring a library or a framework. But in my current work setting, relying on LLMS to do production work is only somewhat helpful here and there but nowhere near as helpful as in the first case. In some cases it hallucinated so close to what it was supposed to do that it introduced a bug I would have never created had I not used LLMs and that took a lot of effort to spot.
I think this depends on the nature of your work. I've been successful with using LLMS for creating things from scratch, for myself, especially in a domain I was not familiar with and am quite happy with that. Things like proof of concepts or exploring a library or a framework. But in my current work setting, relying on LLMS to do production work is only somewhat helpful here and there but nowhere near as helpful as in the first case. In some cases it hallucinated so close to what it was supposed to do that it introduced a bug I would have never created had I not used LLMs and that took a lot of effort to spot.