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In my experience it works better in more constrained and repetitive domains. For example: it is better doing a Ruby on Rails website than a ASP.NET web service.

Particularly, with data structures it is garbage: it nevers understands the constrains that justify writing a new one instead of relying on the ones from the standard library.

And finally, it is incapable of understanding changes of mind. It will go back to stufd already discarted or replaced.

The worst part of all is that it insists in introducing its own "contributions". For example, recently I have been doing some work on ML and I wanted to see the effect of some ablations. It destroyed my code to add again all the stuff I had removed on purpose.

Overall, it provides small typing/search savings, but it cannot be trusted at all yet.




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