To me, one of the most annoying parts of software engineering is writing code that doesn’t require thinking. It’s just a typing exercise, and that’s boring.

That includes code outside of the happy path, like error handling and input validation. But also other typing exercises like processing an entity with 10 different types, where each type must be handled separately. Or propagating one property through the system on 5 different types in multiple layers.

Writing tests is another enjoyable use-case. I design the architecture so the code is testable, write the first test so the AI knows how they should be written, and which cases should be tested. Then I tell the AI each test case and it writes them for me.

The only thing where I don’t trust it yet is when code must be copy pasted. I can’t trace if it actually cuts and pastes code, or if the LLM brain is in between. In the latter case there may be tiny errors that I’d never find, so I’m not doing that. But maybe I’m paranoid.

In any case, this is incredible. In the past years I’ve been handed tools that do the most tedious tasks of software engineering for me. And I love it.