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by Analemma_ 935 days ago
Have you actually tried it? Because this comment seems pretty misplaced with the reality of what ChatGPT can accomplish. I also use it all the time for bash one-liners, and so far my experience has been "80% work correctly on the first try, 15% require minor adjustment to run, 5% require major adjustment to run" and so far none have ever done anything flagrantly wrong or destructive. It also doesn't just print a command with no context: it explains what each flag/step of the command is purportedly doing, which you can (and should!) use to double-check that what you're about to run makes sense. Which is more than I can say for a lot of SO answers!
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swatcoder 935 days ago
Traditionally, the alternative wasn't "SO answers", which are indeed dangerous in their own way -- it was to develop, and then maintain, a comprehensive and fluent understanding of the tools suitable to your profession.

GPT and SO can help you make a deadline today, and we all may use them now and then, but consistently relying on them steals essential opportunities for professional growth.

A journeyman woodworker who just asked somebody else to perform all his tricky jigsaw cuts is going to have a hard time developing the muscle memory and intuitions that mark mastery of the craft.

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fragmede 935 days ago
A master carpenter that only uses hand tools is a master of their craft, and should be respected as such, but refusing to ever use power tools because of a moral objection to electricity would be seen as quite the eccentricity. Which, the Amish sell furniture, and it's really quite good, if niche, furniture.
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simonw 935 days ago
I'd rather get to AI-assisted mastery of many more different crafts than limit myself to achieving mastery of just one single thing.
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anjanb 935 days ago
I've used chatGPT(ver 4 through ChATGPT plus) for creating .bat files. Really easy ones, it can churn out quite well. A lil more complicated - it doesn't consider edge cases. Several cases require me to ask it to generate a golang program that gets called by the .bat file.

Several times, I had to spend hours to get a .bat script working. Hopefully, it will get better in the future.

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