• Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 hours ago

    I use gpt to give me snippets of code (not in my ide, I use neovim btw), check my stuff for typos/logical errors, suggest solutions to some problems, debugging, and honestly I kinda love it. I was learning programming on my own in 2010s, and this is so much better than crawling over wikis/stackoverflow. At least for me, now, when I already have an intuition for what is a good code.

    Anyone who says llm will replace programmers in 1-2 years is either stupid or a grifter.

    • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee
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      4 hours ago

      I generally try to avoid it, as a lot can be learned from trying to fix weird bugs, but I did recently have a 500 line soup code vue component, and I used chatgpt to try to fix it. It didn’t fix the issue, and it made up 2 other issues.
      I eventually found the wrongly-inverted angle bracket.

      My point is, its useful if you try to learn from it, though its a shit teacher.

    • Rin@lemm.ee
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      2 hours ago

      i think you’re spot on. I don’t see anything against asking gpt programming questions, verifying it’s not full of shit and adding it to an already existing codebase.

      The only thing I have a problem with is people blindly trusting AI, which clearly is something you’re not doing. People downvoting you have either never written code or have room temp iq in ºC.

      • self@awful.systems
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        2 hours ago

        you’re back! and still throwing a weird tantrum over LLMs and downvotes on Lemmy of all things. let’s fix both those things right now!