| > the same format of argument that convinced me as a learner to use notepad++ for years Offtopic, but there was a time when that wasn't an entirely specious argument: back when most major IDEs were very heavyweight and bloated, think Eclipse or Netbeans. They've improved an enormous amount since then, both in their performance and general UX, as well as in the important assist features they provide, to the point that if you're not using those today, you're definitely hampering your productivity. There's some relevance to the current situation, which is that these AIs are certainly going to improve, probably very rapidly. > Caveat: chatGPT is a chat program, that it can produce working code in places is a coincidence Is it? OpenAI has the Codex models - https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/codex : > The Codex models are descendants of our GPT-3 models that can understand and generate code. Their training data contains both natural language and billions of lines of public code from GitHub. ...but I don't know how/if those might be integrated into ChatGPT. |