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I see a lot of people posting about how bad AI is at creating code. I, along with everybody I work with, am having the opposite experience where AI is producing high-quality code that is well factored and tested. For a long time it has been a mystery how people can have such opposite experiences.
I now have three cases where close friends were making such statements and I offered to have a chat to understand their experience. In each case, they were using tools that were far from ideal and the tools they had were not configured at all. When I told them about options to provide AI with more instructions and constrain / direct how it works they were surprised.
Because of this experience I am convinced that a large percentage of people that are having a bad experience with AI are not using the right tools or not configuring the tools they have well enough. This post is to try to address this issue. I will be going into details about how I have my environment set up so you can start to understand what is possible.
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