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This is hype curve speak. I have used ChatGPT 4.0 to generate code. It is brilliant at templating. However, it still makes glaring errors. My main bugbear is t
by oxfordmale 4y ago
This is hype curve speak. I have used ChatGPT 4.0 to generate code. It is brilliant at templating. However, it still makes glaring errors.
My main bugbear is that ChatGPT has the confidence of a psychopath. It will never say it doesn't quite know how to program something, and it starts making up things to answer your question.
For example, I asked it to write code to load data from MySQL to Snowflake. The template looked fine until I discovered it made up a method that doesn't exist on Pandas data frames. Finally, when I asked it to chunk, it did a decent job...other than truncating the destination table every time it loaded a chunk of data.
Yes, it did a fantastic job templating the code, picking consistent variable names, etc. However, I could have gotten as far by Googling/StackOverflowing.
The advantage of Googled code is that you know it will likely work, give or take a few bugs. Most humans don't dream up methods that simply don't exist.