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by scubbo 742 days ago
> A lot of common APIs and libraries simply don't exist, in ChatGPT's head.

And, conversely, it assumes the existence of a lot of APIs or libraries that it would be nice if they _did_ exist, but they don't (though, as I've seen someone else comment elsewhere - that's no bad thing if you view it as inspiration rather than gospel. You can ask the LLM "what function would make this task easier if it existed?", and then divert your attention to creating _that_ function instead).

In fairness - it's still a helpful tool which can provide leverage/acceleration for human-directed creation, and I do believe that the quality will improve drastically over the coming years. But we're still a long way off from the time when they can take the lead rather than be a tool.