Re:I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code
by dllthomas on Thursday May 09, 2024 @12:16PM
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> hardly any different from debugging your own first draft
I find this take surprising. Leaving AI aside entirely, debugging my first draft seems very different than debugging your first draft.
Re:I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code
by Brian_K_White on Thursday May 09, 2024 @12:35PM
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I often don't know what's wrong with my broken code. I only know what I want, not exactly in what way I failed to produce it. I have to debug to figure that out.
I grant, maybe that is still quite different.
There is something extra to grasp the theory behind someone else's code sometimes.
There are way too countless many stories of people successfully accomplishing tasks by getting an llm to give them a starting point or outline or even a complete solution that only needed a few fixups, hardly any different from debugging your own first draft, to say it doesn't or can't work. That's already sailed.
The fact that it doesn't produce finished correct code, or even appropriate outline for every single case, doesn't seem especially remarkable or damning to me. It is what it is, it's not what it's not.