[bob1029]

My current take is that it's actually kind of bad at code in a lot of very important ways, but it is so good at getting to ~95% that you don't even feel the missing pieces once you are in flow. Having skills in the target area are important, but some quick runtime testing usually closes the gap.

The added confidence from being able to scream a horrible demand into the void and get back something nearly complete is beyond unbelievable to me. I'm making attempts at projects that I would never have considered otherwise, and I am becoming increasingly emboldened by the capability - "Without using 3rd party dependencies" is probably my #1 prompt nudge right now.

[mock-possum]

yeah that's where I'm at too - it's great that it gets you 95% there, genuinely, but unless you know how to recognize the missing 5%, it's not going to mean much. Broken code is broken code - a single wrong character can render the entire thing unusable.

What's fun is asking it for code solutions, and then asking it to debug its own functions - if it's 95% effective at debugging code that is 95% correct, where does that leave you?