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[โ€“] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 1 points 3 weeks ago

Not everyone is having a great experience. "Tried to use this to create a minimal bootloader and kernel that prints hello world in x86. There was never a point in which it successfully did anything," said a Hacker News comment

My guy I think you gotta get it to count "r"s before you expect this kind of thing...

There are different types of coding. I think that is why people report such wildly different results from AI assistants. For pretty simple busy-work, it does really great, it saves a bunch of time. For tasks where you need to think, it fails hard and likely to continue to do so for the forseeable future.