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But it worked

… But it worked. And it's going to get better. Would I use this for "something important"? Depends how you define that. I used it to build a working product. Would I start letting it modify an existing mature codebase willy-nilly? No, probably not. Would I let it write cryptographic logic or trust that it wrote bulletproof code from a security standpoint in a sensitive context? No. But for a simple application, it was an incredibly powerful tool. Especially for something that didn't even exist just 2 years ago. Give this a decade and it's going to change all our careers even more than it already has.

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TheAceOfHeartsHN

Here's my short review after playing around with Firebase Studio for ~30 minutes. First of all, I had to turn off Firefox Enhanced Tracking Protection because otherwise projects wouldn't load. I gave it the following initial prompt: > An app where you input a question, then flip some coins to generate an I Ching prediction, and it generates a prediction / fortune for you. Then this combination of results can be fed to Gemini AI to produce a more detailed prediction text. It generated something that looked fine. When I input a question and press the button nothing happened. After asking it to fix the problem multiple times and having it fail, I looked at the browser console to figure out the errors it was getting. Then I copied those errors and told it to fix them. After a few iterations, it solved every error and would generate a result. It completely forgot the part where you are suppos…

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memonkeyHN

Can you... provide the prompts? Because I have a hard time believing this. I have tried the hand holding approach with Cursor. It doesn't work for me. I have to constantly correct and over correct. Getting auth working sounds insane to me.

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nbevansHN

I love the Java code sample: ``` // It works, but we have no idea how to send an HTTP request in java. // If you do, send us a nice example to support@errortexts.com. // You just need to POST JSON with the keys `api_key` and optionally `message`. ``` That's brilliant. But it does make me wonder why the LLM couldn't have provided you a suitable Java code example?

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varispeedHN

With these tools you have to talk to them as if you were talking to a knowledgeable, but a bit clueless junior developer. Sometimes it's almost as if you were coding it, just without typing the code.

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