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I am the same, 35 years. I use GPT 4 every day now. It sure is handy. It speeds up some things. It is a time saver but it does not seem to be better than me. It is like an OK assistant.

I would agree, not a fundamental or radical improvement yet.

Will it be? I hope so.

GPT 4 does not produce code that I'm ready to accept. The time it takes to convince it to produce code that I'll accept significantly larger than the time it takes to write that code myself.

GPT 4 is fine for absolutely foreign tasks to me, like write a power shell script, because I know almost nothing about power shell. However those tasks are rare and I generally competent about things I need to do.

I have free Copilot due to my OSS work. This week I disabled it for C++ because it is chronically incapable to match brackets. I was wasting too much time fixing the messes.

I use it for TypeScript/React. But it’s just a more comprehensive code complete. Incremental.

Uh huh, try GPT4 and report back. It’s a generational leap above copilot. I use copilot to auto complete one liners and GPT4 to generate whole methods.