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by argondonor 1149 days ago
It is very nice not having to write code from scratch by hand, but I have noticed that by not doing so, my innate familiarity of the code absolutely craters. Making manual changes to the code suddenly becomes a much more tedious and less confident process, and in many cases I am not sure that it's a net benefit (at least in a situation like mine, where there is no oversight and things go straight to prod.)
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Same for me. I wonder if this is going to follow a similar pattern that we went through with C vs. Assembly. There was a period where everyone coded in assembly and then C came along but people still hand-coded certain parts of applications in assembly to make them more efficient. Then eventually when C compiler optimizations got good enough and computers got faster, few people bother with assembly.
If it is not doing so already, ask it to comment the code it writes.

Worst case scenario, throw the code back into GPT and ask it to make the changes you want to make.