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Those aren't very good senior engineers then lol. GPT-4 has the coding skills of an overconfident junior engineer and little else. I agree the future of GPT-X

Those aren't very good senior engineers then lol. GPT-4 has the coding skills of an overconfident junior engineer and little else. I agree the future of GPT-X models as coding tools is bright. But for actually doing engineering work outside coding (or even delicate changes in an existing code base) much less so.

_ea1k 3y ago
I'd love it if junior engineers organized code as well as ChatGPT. I'd also love it if all engineers stopped mixing spaces and tabs.
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- alfalfasprout 3y ago
  Add a linting step to your CI to catch this stuff?
  - _ea1k 3y ago
    Maybe I could get chatgpt to write those pipeline steps for me. :)
    - oarsinsync 3y ago
      You can and you should. It’s this kind of busywork I farm out to GPT these days and it’s great at it. I suck at it, so it saves me an hour to focus on what I’m good at!
- kristopolous 3y ago
  That can mostly be fixed with conventional prettify tools. No modern ai required
- fragmede 3y ago
  Do you have a style guide? ChatGPT, on spaces vs tabs: https://chat.openai.com/share/b2b0be49-54f9-4f73-a753-3edbd1ead4c0 https://chat.openai.com/share/b2b0be49-54f9-4f73-a753-3edbd1...
  - moffkalast 3y ago
    Well GPT 4 consistently defaults to returning 2 space indents, so clearly it has an opinion on the matter.
koonsolo 3y ago
Of course you can't really compare it to a real senior engineer, but it has a lot of traits that come close or even surpass seniors: 1. It picks very good variable names 2. Clean, nicely structured code 3. Vast amount of knowledge where even a senior engineer still needs to look up stuff (I don't know about you, but I have a terrible memory. ChatGPT clearly has excellent memory about API's, regexes, etc.). It's the "I don't even have to look at the docs or StackOverflow for this" type of knowledge. 4. It's fast, like very fast, like "I don't even have to think about it and just type it out perfectly like a maniac".

_ea1k 3y ago

I'd love it if junior engineers organized code as well as ChatGPT. I'd also love it if all engineers stopped mixing spaces and tabs.

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alfalfasprout 3y ago
Add a linting step to your CI to catch this stuff?
- _ea1k 3y ago
  Maybe I could get chatgpt to write those pipeline steps for me. :)
  - oarsinsync 3y ago
    You can and you should. It’s this kind of busywork I farm out to GPT these days and it’s great at it. I suck at it, so it saves me an hour to focus on what I’m good at!
kristopolous 3y ago
That can mostly be fixed with conventional prettify tools. No modern ai required
fragmede 3y ago
Do you have a style guide? ChatGPT, on spaces vs tabs: https://chat.openai.com/share/b2b0be49-54f9-4f73-a753-3edbd1ead4c0 https://chat.openai.com/share/b2b0be49-54f9-4f73-a753-3edbd1...
- moffkalast 3y ago
  Well GPT 4 consistently defaults to returning 2 space indents, so clearly it has an opinion on the matter.

koonsolo 3y ago

Of course you can't really compare it to a real senior engineer, but it has a lot of traits that come close or even surpass seniors: 1. It picks very good variable names 2. Clean, nicely structured code 3. Vast amount of knowledge where even a senior engineer still needs to look up stuff (I don't know about you, but I have a terrible memory. ChatGPT clearly has excellent memory about API's, regexes, etc.). It's the "I don't even have to look at the docs or StackOverflow for this" type of knowledge. 4. It's fast, like very fast, like "I don't even have to think about it and just type it out perfectly like a maniac".