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Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by geph2021 on Friday March 17, 2023 @03:44PM (#35201878) 

   If we use GPT-X in our company, it will help us with 1% of our workload
I think there are many such cases. Another one that comes to mind is adding features to a large/legacy code-base. Writing the new code/function is a small part of the work. The main part of the work is first understanding and agreeing on how/where to implement the changes, sometimes across multiple teams, and the implications/knock-on effects to other software components, potential API changes, updating test suites, etc...
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Re:Can GPT-4 *Actually* Write Code? by alfalfasprout on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:30PM (#35202484)
And this is one of those things where it has to be done correctly by someone who knows what they're doing. It's not just "oh, I deployed a change and broke something i'll just revert it". Often it means major migrations, etc.

There's a disconnect between folks writing small CRUD or mobile apps for clients and folks that have to work on large codebases with lots of complex systems.

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