The siren song of ChatGPT and junior devs that listen to it

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4 pointsnikdra2 comments

Infobip truly is unhinged. Having interns post about why ChatGPT is bad, while also making the peerlessnetwork.io portal slow as a dog, and going off on anyone who makes the effort to API integrate with them.

Someday they might find a viable business model, but buying Peerless Networks, building slow, unreliable tools to interact with their infrastructure, and not owning up to the poor architectural decisions (under-resourced Python webservers) that led them there is bad business.

The problem is about understanding the problem you have to solve. Chatbots are good to generate templates and boilerplates for sure. But when you rely on GPT or else for every task that necessitates a bit of reflexion, your brain looses slowly the ability to think. When you will confront a situation when the chatbot is useless, and trust me you will, you will have more difficulties to solve the problem. To me chatbots will just split more apart good devs from bad devs.

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