So, I use chatgpt as a wingman while I program to give me explanations and snippets. I don’t think it’s malicious, and I’d say it’s not a whole lot worse than m

So, I use chatgpt as a wingman while I program to give me explanations and snippets. I don’t think it’s malicious, and I’d say it’s not a whole lot worse than my human coworkers in terms of coming up with malarkey. Humans say and do all sorts of wacky shit with full confidence. I stay credulous and I’m not asking it to do my work, I’m asking it to explain edges I’m unfamiliar with. If I find it hallucinated an answer it usually means what I want to do isn’t actually possible but it contrived a plausible way to answer that could be true. If I push around the edges and correct it but it keeps coming up with garbage, I can be pretty certain my line of reasoning is at a dead end and I need to backtrack or accept I need a different solution to a different question. I’ll verify this using Kagi and it’s usually pretty trivial to verify I’m right. This feels exactly like my experience over the last 30 years developing software with human coworkers.