GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code

Re:GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code by brushfoot on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:01PM (#35161488)

Just the opposite, this is letting me pick up more work than ever. The nature of that continues to shift as rote memorization becomes less important, but that was already the case thanks to earlier forms of code completion.

It may be that breadth is becoming more valuable than depth. The engineering design process is more important than ever, along with soft skills and an eye for what kind of work matters.

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Re:GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code by nodemaker on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:02PM (#35161511)

Exactly! I think the difference between me and some FAANG leetcoder just became hugely apparent

Before calculators were invented I imagine people thought that people who could multiply two big numbers were very smart!

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Re:GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code by CapstanRoller on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:21PM (#35161758)

>this is letting me pick up more work than ever

Is this a desirable outcome, to be just a meat robot middleman for the machines doing the actual work? I hope this will lead to a total rethinking of how our relationship to work and the why of it all.

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Re:GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code by sualehasif on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:05PM (#35161548)

I am on this side of the argument. It is letting me code better than ever before :) I have been able to pick up new languages/build systems much faster than in the past (Swift for example.)

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