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It helps like a very low cost assistent; for instance, people complain about it writing ‘wrong code’. So do most programmers.

The confidently wrong is simply because it is not human (even though many humans do the same); it is in fact not confident; you just attribute that to it because of the language it uses. In fact, it feels nothing confident or otherwise; it just gives you crap and then you can ask it to think about it again.

Like I was asking it something and it told me the answer was 11, then it explained why the answer was 11 but at the end of the explanation it concluded the answer was 12. So I asked what it is 11 or 12; it said 12 and 11 was a mistake. Which was indeed correct. Again, that is not unlike humans at all; humans often say something with confidence and after a big of pondering, they correct themselves. Difference is, humans actually do feel confident or unsure etc.

You write and then you fine tune and fix; that is what it does. But faster and cheaper than humans. You engage in a conversation about the problem; it generates code, you check the code and tell what’s wrong, it will generate again with fixes etc. Especially with boring things like structural transformations aka a large json doc transformed to another large json doc with all kinds of operations in between, chatgpt is simply a lot faster than I would be, even with errors. Just paste a two json doc and ask typescript types and code for both to transform them one to another. Then add operations by tell on which nodes and what they should do. Ask to make jest tests.