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It works well for statically typed languages though. I use it for Rust and simply copy paste, allowing the compiler to tell me where it's wrong.

For Python or something similar, I wouldn't use it at all.

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I do use ChatGPT very often for Python and SQL right now, but you really have to know what you are doing. The errors are sublte but such that the code more often than not would not run.

Yep, so I definitely wouldn't use it for code like that at all. I'd probably just tell it to give me more of an overview of the code.

But know that in the future, ChatGPT will be hooked up to a runtime system and compiler with which it can know how to fix errors itself. In fact, plugins already allow some of this.

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