Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code?

Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by munchbunny on Friday March 17, 2023 @08:27AM (#35196182)

These statements can definitely be simultaneously true:

* ChatGPT is revolutionary - honestly, it's genuinely impressive how much of a leap ChatGPT is compared to the attempts that came before it.

* Programmers write a lot of simple code that has been written before - there are genuinely tons of cases of "write a web endpoint that takes an ID, looks it up in a database table, pulls an object through an ORM, and returns a JSON serialization of it." Most programmers? Doubt it. But tons of programmers write CRUD stuff and tons of IT admins do light scripting, and a lot of it is repeated code.

Could ChatGPT do my job? Not even close. But it's still really impressive to me.

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Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by Jeff_Brown on Friday March 17, 2023 @10:46AM (#35197794)

I feel safe too, and I'm amused at the dynamic. GPT could do a lot of the things I do, but it would take someone who knows what I know in order to explain the task in sufficient detail for it to do that.

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