Comment Give me a tool to do X (Score 1) 86
If X is well-defined (and examples abound in the training set) you get the correct thing out.
Maybe a little massaging is necessary around the edges.
Saves me a few hours here and there.
Overall a net gain. And oddly enough, nearly all the code I've written recently is ai generated this way.
But.
Most of these little one-prompt wonders exist to take as input something out of a massive code base I wrote by hand over many years and continue to tweak by hand.