[hammyhavoc]

Exactly my experiences. With a fucking NGINX configuration, for which I provided it the documentation, and the URL rewrite lines it would require. I spent days on trying to find the value that other people are claiming it has.

[spookthesunset]

Same. Those videos of people letting ChatGPT have almost certainly edited out the hours they spent trying to force the thing to spit out usable code. ChatGPT simply doesn't have enough context, nor the ability to "remember" context to do anything larger than a single function or two.

What makes it even more frustrating is to iterate, you constantly have to keep it updated with any changes you made outside of chatgpt.

Don't get me wrong, it's pretty useful but it is far from a silver bullet. Getting that last 20% (or even 30%) is going to be a lot of work...

[mise_en_place]

It's a gradient. You can't be too specific, but you can't be too general either. IME

[hammyhavoc]

Strangely, specificity is exactly what people champion the importance of when it comes to successful prompting.