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by blharr 814 days ago
I still don't know. I feel like there are many ways where GPT will write some code or fix a bug in a way that makes it significantly harder to debug. Even for relatively simple tasks, it's kind of like machine-generated code that I would not want to touch.
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It is a bit worrisome but we manage to deal with subpar human code as well. Often the boilerplate generated by ChatGPT is already better than what an unexperienced coder would string together. I‘m sure it will not be a free lunch but the the benefits will probably outweigh the downsides.

Interesting scalability questions will arise wrt to security when scaling the already unmanagably large code bases by another magnitude (or two), though.