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In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, GPT has strengthened my coding skills... for the simple reason that the handful of times I've asked it to do something the response I get back is so outlandish that I go "That CAN'T be right" and figure out how to do it myself...

Research with extra steps... I get it, but still..

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I feel like it's whispering bad advice at me while I'm typing. It's good for as auto completing the most rudimentary stuff, but I have a hard time imagining it completing even one file without injecting dangerous bugs, let alone a large refactor.