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by coffeedan 949 days ago
>> For instance when you ask it for a snippet of code and it gets it right.

In my experience so far, more often than not, it doesn’t get it right. Brings to mind the old maxim, “a broken clock is right twice a day”.

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Personally, this just seems to me to model slight inexperience pretty well. But just like junior developers are not useless, I find GPT, copilot, etc. to be a force multiplier. It can generate, in 2 seconds, a 15-line function to do a simple thing which is nearly always either correct or needs one small tweak to satisfy me. This allows me to focus my brain 100% on the interesting parts of the problem domain. To me, it feels exactly like having a bright junior developer at a second keyboard twiddling his thumbs all day, waiting for me to need some trivial grunt work task.