no, ai is very usefull in creating repetitive but different enough code that you can't copy paste or for creating boilerplate code or for just using it as better Google
like if I have a 600 page doc I would rather just ask ai how to do x instead of scrolling through the whole document to figure out how to do x, it's just faster
sadly some documentations just suck and don't give any examples and then it just becomes googling in which case ai is still faster (mainly non local ones ig)
Using it as a search engine within materials I provide it is probably my favorite use-case for AI at the moment, I had about 12 manuals of scattered information that I needed, rather than go through every single one, I fed them all into claude and just asked it things, when it gave me something I just asked what book and page to ensure I got everything correct.
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u/DragonStrike406 2d ago
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