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"I actually take offense to the notion that you would consider people who find these tools useful to be incapable engineers." I apologize for offending you. I
by shanebellone 4y ago
"I actually take offense to the notion that you would consider people who find these tools useful to be incapable engineers."
I apologize for offending you. I can't imagine parsing code for errors being faster than typing it out. I suppose I assumed most have boilerplate memorized. I'll try to avoid being so presumptuous in the future.
- williamcotton 4y agoThere's two ways to check if something is correct: run it or read it. In this case I just copy and pasted the results and it worked as expected. YMMV. I will say that you seem to be operating under the assumption that these tools are less reliable at producing the correct code than they really are! Ironically, the latest GPT-3 models trained before OpenAI made changes to their API resulting in basically useless assistance for things like the openai npm library!
- shanebellone 4y ago"I will say that you seem to be operating under the assumption that these tools are less reliable at producing the correct code than they really are!" Its output is generic. Leverage is not found in convention. For that reason, I find it useless. Plus, I typically retain my codebase. For exploratory coding, I could see some utility.
- williamcotton 4y agoGotcha. You want code. I want tools. So a tool that helps me make tools is a lever. But a tool that helps you make code is not a lever, because “good code” is your goal. This explains it perfectly! Thank you!
- shanebellone 4y ago"because “good code” is your goal." Original thought is my goal. Otherwise, I think you're spot on. To each their own as they say!