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Old wine in new bottles. Blaming ChatGPT doesn't make sense, when no real coder would cut/paste code from anywhere, let alone unvetted code from a bot.

• hammyhavoc 4y ago
  If anything, people heavily leaning on ChatGPT for coding are outing themselves as likely having been an inappropriate hire for their position if they're impressed with what it can do and find it useful. That's a strong take, and I know there will be very clever folks out there who make use of it who can apply common sense, but I think the majority of users have a strong Dunning-Kruger complex. I'm very unimpressed with ChatGPT as a tool for any kind of dev, and I largely consider myself to be a hack versus a lot of folks. I've mentioned it before on HN, but with all the hype for ChatGPT, I wasted days trying to get it to spit out a correct NGINX config based on documentation fed to it. Hallucinated functionality that wasn't there, didn't implement URL rewrites correctly, and was just a colossal waste of time versus just doing it properly from scratch. Validating its output is much slower than just not using it and writing things manually IME. Same goes for asking it for methods to export data from one program and import it into another, hallucinating all kinds of menu functionality that isn't there, commands that don't exist, and not considering file and format incompatibility. Whatever people are using it for must be incredibly basic, but I don't know what could be more basic than an NGINX config. I can't even get sensible Home Assistant stuff out of it. I can't believe people are asking ChatGPT anything instead of just reading the documentation when it can hallucinate some complete and utter garbage.