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Is my understanding of GPT's "coding" ability wrong? From what I've seen, GPT isn't architecting systems. It writes code snippets--basically the stuff you can
by camhart 4y ago
Is my understanding of GPT's "coding" ability wrong?
From what I've seen, GPT isn't architecting systems. It writes code snippets--basically the stuff you can copy/paste off stack overflow. The only difference is now instead of Googling and searching for the code snippet, GPT will sometimes just give it to you. But once you need something unique, or something that's not just one little piece of the puzzle, it can't do it.
- Myrmornis 4y agoThe thing is... we've only seen a few months of these LLMs. And it is not unknown in the world of software for the early versions to seem laughably primitive a few years later.
- camhart 4y agoLLMs have scraped the internet for their "knowledge". Asking it to go from copying/pasting a code snippet that's more or less found elsewhere on the internet, to architecting a unique system is a massive leap. More breakthroughs are needed before there's any real significant threat to programmer jobs.
- akmarinov 4y agoThey’re pretty good if you know what you’re asking and what they’re giving you as a response. They’re pretty bad if you’re asking them about something you have no idea about.
- _nalply 4y agoProbably GPT could give answers about architecting systems when prompted right. But I think it still needs an experienced programmer to discern hallucination from useful answers. In other words, dig shit for gold nuggets. Still useful, though.