This article is not about ChatGPT, but GPT-4. I've found the latter to be significantly better at being a coding assistant in all areas: the code actually compiles and often works out of the box. Even better than chat, I can paste it's generated code and simply respond with any errors given and it will fix it accordingly, something I had lots of trouble using chat to do. GPT-4 is that much better and it makes sense to me that the author is lamenting now and not 4 months ago.