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by firewolf34 761 days ago
Seriously, it's the same argument that people give for "ChatGPT can't give me good code, I don't know why", just rephrased. The deluge of "GPT is not useful for X" articles meant to bait the average critic, despite it being used en masse for "subproblems in X-space" already...

They're asking the wrong type of work from it. If you need some boilerplate or a transformation, it's going to give you a fantastic template to work with. If you need it, on the other hand, to engineer out a highly-specific and nuanced solution with an esoteric codebase to a complex problem, maybe not so much. The former is wide, the latter is narrow. It's going to take maybe a bit more breakdown of the scope into proper subproblems before you'll get a good answer; and that's something you can do yourself, or have an agent perform across multiple queries maybe (though I'll admit, more work needs to be done for the whole multi-agent workflows to be truly useful).