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I suppose it depends what specifically you're getting it to do, but I've found in my testing the shotgun approach to be more work than just writing it out mysel

I suppose it depends what specifically you're getting it to do, but I've found in my testing the shotgun approach to be more work than just writing it out myself. Honestly I've found its biggest value in learning a new language, it outputs with so many errors that it forces me to get in deep with debugging it. I haven't tried gpt-4 yet though, maybe its a vast improvement, I'm just not using it enough to justify the costs

progrus 4y ago
It really depends on how comfortable you are with the language you’re using, and how recently you switched contexts. For anything unfamiliar, it’s pretty impressive how much it can help. In fact, I bet if you did an experiment comparing people reading a textbook about a somewhat-familiar language, vs. just asking GPT to do things and noticing the bugs, the latter group would reach proficiency faster.