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I am an engineer, but not a software engineer. I write python sometimes to help me do engineer-y things in my domain but I am absolutely not very fluent, just e
by idiotsecant 3y ago
I am an engineer, but not a software engineer. I write python sometimes to help me do engineer-y things in my domain but I am absolutely not very fluent, just enough to get by. chatGPT often transforms a frustrating multi-hour stack overflow session into a 5 minute query.
The result is definitely not something you'd want to maintain and probably has built in inefficiencies and edge cases I don't know about but it did it's job, which was to do the thing I wanted it to do so I can go on with my work.
- circuit10 3y agoHonestly for tasks it’s able to do easily ChatGPT code is probably more maintainable because it’s more well-commented, formatted etc. than code a human would write if they’re just trying to quickly hack something together Sometimes I think “you can tell this part of my code was generated by ChatGPT because it’s actually good, unlike the rest of it” Of course it’s likely to make subtle mistakes that are hard to debug if you ask it to do anything complicated because it can’t test its own code (well, I’ve heard something about a code interpreter in the Plus version but I don’t know how well that works)
- advantager 3y agoSimilar situation here. I usually can hack something together in python, but end up spending a couple hours reading stack overflow posts, and often meeting with co-workers to debug my code. Chat-GPT can often write simple code for me and honestly saves some time.