Generally speaking, "LLMs" that I use are always the latest thinking versions of the flagship models (Grok 3/Gemini 2.5/...). GPT4o (and equivalent) are a mess.
But you're correct, when you use more exotic and/or quite new libraries, the outputs can be of mixed quality. For my current stack (Typescript, Node, Express, React 19, React Router 7, Drizzle and Tailwind 4) both Grok 3 (the paid one with 100k+ context) and Gemini 2.5 are pretty damn good. But I use them for prototyping, i.e. quickly putting together new stuff, for types, refactorings... I would never trust their output verbatim. (YET.) "Build an app that ..." would be a nightmare, but React-like UI code at sufficiently granular level is pretty much the best case scenario for LLMs as your components should be relatively isolated from the rest of the app and not too big anyways.
I do this and it still spits out react snippets regardless like 40% of the time... I feel like unless you are doing something extremely basic this is fine but once you introduce state or animations all these systems death spiral.
I use https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/intellicode/ for my IDE which learns on your codebase, so it does end up saving me a ton of time after its learned my patterns and starts suggesting entire classes hooked up to the correct properties in my EF models.
It lets me still have my own style preferences with the benefit of AI code generation. Bridged the barrier I had with code coming from Claude/ChatGPT/etc where its style preferences were based on the wider internets standards. This is probably a preference on the level of tabs vs spaces, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No, buy packs are pure market manipulation. There is a reason why they were banned prior to 1982. It's a SEC rule that can easily be reversed too but the rich love their ability to manipulate markets for their benefit.
Because you won't be rewarded with money and influence while still having the same risks of layoffs.
At this point you're better off working on your own thing because the company is usually, always with few exceptions mind you, a dishonest actor that is openly hostile.
The elites can't blame the state of the world on workers when they've created out hellscape of treadmills to delusion and abandonment.
Why do you feel the need to work a second job, why would that be better? Wouldn't you rather be a part of your local community and put effort there rather than a private enterprise?
There's more to life than working. Why do you feel it's necessary to work two jobs in an industry that typically pays more than the median home income in 99% of cities in the US?
I think if you go even deeper: it's that humans primitively require novel and emotional experiences, it got us out of the cave. These systems are a way to generate.
Really interesting how the poster gets very defensive when rightfully called out on it too.
We’re going to see similar emotional outbursts in the future. Probably going to need new strategies to convince people why they are wrong. Even harder when the parrot says they’re actually right.
I mean I try to use them for svelte or vue and it still recommends react snippets sometimes.
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