The number of times I had to do it in real production code amounts to zero.
The number of times I had to piece code from poorly documented external services, conflicting product requirements, and running on complex and weird environments has been ... well ... multiple times a day for the past 20+ years.
"instruct-like prompts" is what you give a very junior engineer out of college, and then you have to carefully review their code.
> write c code to reverse a linked list
The number of times I had to do it in real production code amounts to zero.
The number of times I had to piece code from poorly documented external services, conflicting product requirements, and running on complex and weird environments has been ... well ... multiple times a day for the past 20+ years.
"instruct-like prompts" is what you give a very junior engineer out of college, and then you have to carefully review their code.