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Do you think ChatGPT has changed any of those answers from Yes to No? Because it hasn't.

People blindly copied stack overflow code, they blindly copied every example off of MSDN, they blindly copy from ChatGPT - your holier than thou statements are funny, and frankly most LLMs cannot leave a local maxima, so anyone who says they dont write any code anymore I frankly think they are not capable of telling the mistakes, both architecturally and specifically that they are making.

More and different prompting will not dig you out of the hole.




This. Most people I know that use LLMs to be super productive are like "make me a button, it's red" (hyperbolic statement but you know what I mean). I can do that faster and better myself.

When I'm deeply stuck on something and I think "let's see if an LLM could help here", I try (and actually tried many times) to recruit those prompting gurus around me that swear LLMs solve all their problems... and they consistently fail to help me at all. They cannot solve the problem at all and I'm just sitting there, watching the gurus spend hours prompting in circles until they give up and leave (still thinking LLMs are amazing, of course).

This experience is what makes me extremely suspicious of anyone on the internet claiming they don't write code anymore but refusing to show (don't tell!) -- when actually testing it in real life it has been nothing but disappointment.




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