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this begs the question - what was it useful for to begin with? I am not a coder, so CoPilot has never been for me (so I cannot speak for that use case)... but for creative/writing/content-generation... feel like good content needed to be heavily edited and selected in any case... I wouldn't say that has gotten worse, but it was never quite good to begin with unless your bar was quite low.

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Not really a developer but I write code in Python and Java a few times a week. Recently I had to edit some JavaScript.

I also found ChatGPT to be mostly useless. In all three languages, the only hard problems were interacting with libraries that ChatGPT knows nothing about. I really wanted to say something like “Create a function that pulls data from this internal API, calls a library function, and then displays it as a React component”, but it took more time trying to get ChatGPT to understand how the API and libraries worked that just actually writing the damn code

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