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I think it works well in both ways. I've been developing software professionally for the past ~20 years and there's no doubt that the combination of ChatGPT and CoPilot greatly reduces the amount of time I would usually spend on boilerplate code. Now I can more or less just review the suggestions, review tests and progress with my solutions a lot faster.

At the same time, I see my 9 year old girl using ChatGPT to create Minecraft extensions; she has no prerequisites for actually developing software, but she manages to make some small extensions and have them work either way.

Acknowledging that she doesn't actually learn much from this, I think one can assume that everything in between (e.g. using ChatGPT for pair learning) is definitely also possible.

But whatever AI is outputting, there's no way these qualified guesses can beat experience from a professional developer. I know that the output will never be better than the prompt, but sometimes the output - no matter how much effort you put into the prompt - is visibly just a qualified guess.