New here 👋 needing guidance

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Name: Guillermo

Anything is greatly appreciated :clap:

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Hello @Geronimo_OKXIOXA3

  • Whenever your files get larger than 400 lines, you should split it. AI basically goes line by line, and when there is en arror, it goes over that many lines again. so it a O(n) time complexity * # errors. Lets say if you have 3000 lines of code in a single file, it will go over that 3000, line by line, even if it is a one liner small tweak you asked for it.

    Hope this helps.

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  • use /clear in chat in firebase studio to clear your chat. But know that it actually does not clear chat.
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  • the preview window that they provide inside of firebase studio will get slow and unresponsive, So open your site in different tab.
  • The “Select” Tool they provide top right does not always work properly. It sometimes higlights the element as button or p or header etc. and does not copy the full XPath from DOM of html
  • Even if you restore your application to a previous version, it will still use code from later versions, even if you explicitly tell it not to.
  • Sometimes it will show you the files that were changed, but they have no change. And when you cilck on files to see what were changed, it will show all lines to be red [meaning deleted].
  • Know that it can print nice debug log print lines that show exactly what is wrong with the application, but will not be able to solve it when you feed that info back to it.
  • It will give you many undefined errors or type errors that keep coming at you.
  • It does not read documentations of libraries when trying to install it. and when it does install it, installs the older versions which screw up your next.js versions.
  • It will most of the times be confused with your instructions and code variable/function names. So you will try to fix it by instructing gemini to replace all certain names with a new name, simple control+f and replace, a good automation to save time. But, no it will not do all the files. Get ready to get lots of errors.
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Thank you @Ihsan_Duru for providing @Geronimo_OKXIOXA3 and others with the above guidance. Always appreciate those who give back to others in the community.

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Brother. Thank you for sharing.

Unfortunately, im still un able to fully follow you and or comprehend the terms defined and analogy. Please help mentor me.

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just dm [private message] me

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