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ChatGPT Isn't as Good at Coding as We Thought (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] daikiki 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

I've experimented a bit with chatGPT, asking it to create some fairly simple code snippets to interact with a new API I was messing with, and it straight up confabulated methods for the API based on extant methods from similar APIs. It was all very convincing, but if there's no way of knowing that it's just making things up, it's literally worse than useless.

[–] tbonebrad 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ve had similar experiences with it telling me to call functions of third party libs that don’t exist. When you tell it “That function X does not exist” it says “I’m sorry, your right function X does not exist on library A. here is another example using function Y” then function Y doesn’t exist either.

I have found it useful in a limited scope, but I have found co-pilot to be much more of a daily time saver.

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