Re:Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff
by two_in_one on Thursday September 28, 2023 @03:16PM
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> I'd argue that the productivity boost is mich higher for the lower end developers than for the best ones.
I'd say it depends on the task more than on dev level. If it's maintaining, improving, or refactoring of a large project LLM can't help much. When it comes to small utilities GPT-4 is a time saver. You can even write a small playable game with it in a matter of hours. Using any popular language. Simple web pages, JS are much easier. With ChatGPT-4 I've learned how to do certain things using ffmpeg. Without it would take hours of googling.
PS: talking about ChatGPT degradation with the time. I didn't see it on programming tasks. But it became noticeably faster.
I'd say it depends on the task more than on dev level. If it's maintaining, improving, or refactoring of a large project LLM can't help much. When it comes to small utilities GPT-4 is a time saver. You can even write a small playable game with it in a matter of hours. Using any popular language. Simple web pages, JS are much easier. With ChatGPT-4 I've learned how to do certain things using ffmpeg. Without it would take hours of googling.
PS: talking about ChatGPT degradation with the time. I didn't see it on programming tasks. But it became noticeably faster.