It’s like handing a job to the new guy.
I use it for snippets. Always double check though and always need to remind it of methods that will and will not work. Often it’s just inspiration or for doing lengthy subquery style stuff that takes ages to type out. But even then, 10 mins of battling it when I didn’t want to take 5 mins to just manually do it is sadly common.
I do like asking it to optimise and it can’t find anything that could be better, though. We’re friends then.
Boilerplates, or solutions to really weird one off problems that require a bunch of synthesis across different, unfamiliar domains (ie, as a web dev, how do I install imagemagick on an internal, stripped down rootless RHEL container with microdnf)
Yeah, or implementing well-defined single functions that would otherwise just be a hassle. I’ll just stub out the function signature and tell it to finish the rest.
I find it actually useful to write code you understand and you could have written yourself, you are just lazy to type.
But I cannot imagine developing using ChatGPT without actually knowing what is in the output or what specifically ask for.
I agree with exactly what you wrote, but I don’t consider it “lazy” to use tools to get work done faster/better.
Agree! I meant lazy in a lazy-smart way
Agreed. Auto complete with IDEs both save time and help make camel casing everything properly easier.
In a year, ChatGPT will be the #1 contributor to code rot and things that need to be refactored.
If it can tell me what the code I’m looking at (that I wrote yesterday) is supposed to do, that’s enough for me.
// This keeps the service afloat. I don’t really know why, but don’t comment the following line!
ChatGPT, debug this code!
I’m sorry, but as a large AI language model, I don’t have the ability to debug this code.
I used it a bit during the first hype wave. It was neat, but immediately I found I hadn’t actually learned anything. When I went back to the code, there wasn’t a matching trail of purple links though Google or stack overflow for me to follow and retrace my steps. That probably reinforced for me that programming is about design choices, and provenance of ideas, more than anything else.
You’re not supposed to let ai write code you don’t understand. It’s meant to help with syntax you don’t remember (but would recognize upon seeing), reduce typing, and get creative juices flowing by presenting a way of doing the things.
Do you pay for it op?
