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Funny you say that. Literally the first thing I tried to get ChatGPT to do for me was to give me an example gdb extension written in Python. It hallucinated badly and as I pushed it, it produced increasingly erroneous errors. That was about 6-8 months ago though. It might be better now.

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Make sure you try gpt4 if you didn't.

I've had partial success in getting gpt4 to write rubocop cops (i.e. custom linting rules for ruby). I had to iterate a bit but eventually got something working and wouldn't have tried if I didn't have gpt helping me.

I think it was gpt3 at the time. I just tried 4 and it got it right!

3 is unusable and mostly just a curiosity. 4 is scary smart.

There's 3 years between them. Bit worried about 2026.

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