Dunno about "readibility" but I fully expect ChatGPT to produce vast swathes of code that nobody understands. While I'll cop to being more skeptical than the a

Dunno about "readibility" but I fully expect ChatGPT to produce vast swathes of code that nobody understands. While I'll cop to being more skeptical than the average HN denizen about ChatGPT, this isn't actually cynicism about ChatGPT, but about human cognition. If we do have something that produced large swathes of mostly correct code, it won't be long before the humans using it aren't even checking it anymore. Same reason that cars can do a little bit of assisting, and if they could do 100% of the driving that might be safe, but 98% of the driving is not a very good idea at all. In 20 years, someone will ask CodeGPT 8.3 to explain what some code does, and it'll give a perfectly understandable explanation back, except the human still won't understand it because the human doesn't actually understand how computers work anymore. They'll think they understand it, though.