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by y04nn 1276 days ago
It happened to me once, it generates a plausible answer when it doesn't know (tried to generate a Nix script with Erlang). But I have used it to generate examples code in Haskell, and it was quite good, probably because Haskell libraries have excellent online documentation. It's much faster than reading the doc of the library.
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When it generates bullshit answers just call him out and it will try another way to do it. Tell it specifically what doesn't make sense and it will fix it.
That does assume you can quickly and easily tell when it's bullshitting, which it's not always easy to do. As a way of learning new stuff, I'd strongly disrecommend it (because "when you're learning" is precisely when you're least able to identify the bullshit), although perhaps it's not the worst thing in the world if you're already an expert.