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by godelski 1080 days ago
I guess I'm a bit confused at what you're saying. Are you asking it to explain things to you in a pirate voice so that it is more entertaining and you can maintain concentration? I don't find this as really relying on GPT. Or are you saying when you have simple routines that need to be implemented but are boring and so you have GPT generate most of them for you to reduce the bordem? I also don't see that as contentious with what I said above (all programming has a lot of boring and routine shit).

But if you're outsourcing a significant portion of your overall work (day-to-day, not just off-days) then that's more what I'm getting at. The people that are like "I couldn't imagine programming without copilot" or such. Every one of those that I've met is missing important base knowledge about programming in general that ends up making a lot of technical debt for themselves. The "build fast and break things" style realistically only works if you have a certain level of expertise OR the project doesn't need to be robust. Former because to actually be fast you need to have a good picture of the whole or else you end up chasing one thing to the next and your overall path is far slower but might seem faster because you're sprinting the whole time.