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As a software engineer I tried a snippet of code from Google Gemini once. It was wrong. 
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Oh, ok.  You tried it *once* and it was wrong, therefore it's useless.

I'd highly recommend that you put in the time and check out the latest tools.

Try Copilot (with VSCode), or Cursor.  Check out Claude Code - I think you'll be surprised.

All of these now work in an agentic mode - give them a problem, and they will break it down into tasks and present possible solutions.  You can ask follow-up questions and give clarifying instructions.

Don't expect a one-shot solution, unless you're writing short scripts (which they are *great* at, BTW).

Finally, try out Gemini or OpenAI 'deep research' mode.  I've had it produce me a 35 page paper on post-quantum algorithm adoption and 20 minutes later I had a great document with references, etc.  As a bonus, it made me a great infographic.

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And only half the references were complete fabrications! :D[/quote]

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