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by gaganyaan 1057 days ago
The killer app is ChatGPT. I'm not sure what you're expecting here, but it's been enormously useful while trying out new languages. For example, even if it's not 100% right, it has been a great help while working with nix, as I'm often ignorant to entire methods of solving a problem, and it's pretty good at suggesting the right method.

It's also super useful for things like "convert this fish shell snippet to bash" or "rewrite this Python class as a single function". It tends to really nail these sorts of grounded questions, and it legitimately saves me time.