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by __MatrixMan__ 893 days ago
I'd say that chatgpt can solve half of the nix problems that I bother confront it with. Half of them it solves it on the first go, for the remainder I have to go back and forth with it for 4x longer than it would have taken me to solve it on my own.

Typically these are troubleshooting a flake for a project. I think it works because flakes are nice and self contained: you can paste the whole flake. I find it does significantly worse when trying to help with contributions to nixpkgs, presumably because the context is not bite sized.