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I use it because it's 10-100x more interesting, fun, and fast as a way to program, instead of me having to personally hand-craft hundreds of lines of boilerplate API interaction code every time I want to get something done.

Besides, it's not like it puts out great code (or even always working code), so I still have to read everything and debug it. And sometimes it writes code that is just fine and fit for purpose and horrendously ugly, so I still have to scrap everything and do it myself.

(And then sometimes I spend 10x as long doing that, because it turns out it's also just plain good fun to grow an aesthetic corner of the code just for the hell of it, too — as long as I don't have to.)

And even after all that extra time is factored back in: it's still way faster and more fun than the before-times. I'm actually enjoying building things again.

[halfjoking]

Pair-programming with ChatGPT is like having an idiot-savant friend who always surprises you. Doesn’t matter if the code is horrible, amazing, or something inbetween. It’s always interesting.

And I agree it’s fun. Maybe it’s the simulated social interaction without consequences. I can be completely honest with my robot friend about the shitty or awesome code and no one’s feelings are going to get hurt. ChatGPT will just keep trying to be helpful.