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ChatGPT Isn't as Good at Coding as We Thought::undefined

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[โ€“] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always thought of chat gpt as a "companion tool" that isn't meant to write good code by itself, but to help programmers write good code (just like search engines and documentation)

Have you used it for this lately?

I want to believe it used to be okay for this, but just yesterday I uses it to generate some pretty basic bash and I'm honestly not convinced it saved me any time after I cleaned it all up and actually made it functional