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But out of all the programmers I know, there are only certain ones that are embracing it, and the rest are still stuck in "I tried it and the code wasn't exactly what I wanted - it's all hype" land. And I think for one of the reasons you say: programmers are vain and believe everything they do requires great intelligence. A lot are still missing the forest from the trees.

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I tried so much to use it for my day job but it's next to useless, it takes more time to get it to go where I want than to actually do it myself. My day job is far from requiring a great intelligence, but the tasks are too specific for chatgpt

I've used it for side projects though, especially front end stuff that I absolutely hate (js) and it works fine for that, but that's because I'm absolutely garbage at it in the first place and probably ask it to solve the most answered things ever on stackoverflow &co

What's your day job, out of interest?

I think a lot of it is due to the unresolved legal questions. Basically nobody can use it professionally yet. As soon as that happens I expect it to become a standard tool.

Although... on the other hand there are plenty of programmers that don't even use IDEs still.

It’s a bit concerning how many folks I’ve met at meetups talking about how they are using ChatGPT at work. The few I’ve pressed on it have said they’re not supposed to, but they do it off the company hardware so no one knows.

For programming I find ChatGPT to be a great rubber duck

I got a coding challenge as part of the interview process. I had 2h to complete it, but I finished in 30mins thanks to ChatGPT. I wrote some test cases and told ChatGPT to generate more. I reviewed them and copied a few relevant ones. It also hinted me that I could add support for fractions.

Stack Overflow can do that for me too, and no Bill Gates negative karma is involved.

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