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by TruthWillHurt 1062 days ago
GPT knowledge cutoff is eons ago in js time.

They all had to go back to React for it to write code for them :D

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I think about this a lot. About how ChatGPT is perhaps cementing a lot incumbent tech right now. I wonder if the existence of these tools might actually slow down advances in frameworks, packages, libraries, etc...
I don't think about it at all. ChatGPT isn't able to actually do anything I actually need to as a software developer. Code is the easy part, getting good requirements from stakeholders and implementing it as business logic that meets the goals of various other internal concerns is the hard part. ChatGPT doesn't know anything about that stuff.

Sometimes I wonder if anyone clutching their pearls about LLM stuff being able to replace them has actually done any real valuable work as dev.

People keep saying that. However, in my personal experience, GPT-4 is great help at requirement gathering. I regularly give it sporadic meeting notes and text chats and get very well organized requirements back.
Whereas before I would Google something 20 times, and visit Stack Overflow 10 times per day while coding… Now I visit ChatGPT 28 times per day.